Blue Streak: Swearing, Free Speech, and Sexual Harrassment by Richard Dooling

Blue Streak: Swearing, Free Speech, and Sexual Harrassment

Richard Dooling

179 pages first pub 1996 (editions)

nonfiction challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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Most language issues from the cerebral cortex - evolution's pride and joy. But swearing erupts from the buried, primitive limbic system, which is the same part of the brain that produces passion, hatred, and aggression. As National Book Award nomi...

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