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From: ariels@orca.UUCP (Ariel Shattan)
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Subject: Re: Women are not people?!?!?!?
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Date: Fri, 22-Feb-85 13:05:17 EST
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> 	An interesting book on all of this is "Language and Women's Place"
> by Robin Lakoff -- hard to find in shopping malls, but a perennial
> bestseller on college campuses.  Lakoff discusses the question of how
> "language" and sexism interact in plain English (aside:  how unusual
> for an academic!  :-)).  
> -- 
> "1985:  Why 1985 isn't like 1984"
> 
> Rick Keir -- MicroComputer Information Center, MACC
> 1210 West Dayton St/U Wisconsin Madison/Mad WI 53706
> {allegra, ihnp4, seismo}!uwvax!uwmacc!rick



Oh, ho, HO!  There is a good deal of controversy about Robin
Lakoff's work in Linguistic circles.  Seems that she didn't do much
in the way of her own research, but took previous discussion of
"women's language" and modified it to meet her hypotheses.  

There are better books on Language and Women and how Language
affects Women and all them there types of theories.  Unfortunately,
I can't get to my copies right now to get the titles because all my
books are in boxes.

Just be careful about even published theories on this type of stuff,
because there's always someone with a differing opinion who's book
hasn't been picked up by a major printer.  Check the library of your
local University.

Ariel (everybody's gotta put their two cents in) Shattan
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