Mother Tongue: The Surprising History of Women's Words by Jenni Nuttall

Mother Tongue: The Surprising History of Women's Words

Jenni Nuttall

292 pages first pub 2023 (editions)

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An enlightening linguistic journey through a thousand years of feminist language—and what we can learn from the vivid vocabulary that English once had for women’s bodies, experiences, and sexualitySo many of the words that we use to chronicle wome...

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