Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language

ISBN-13: 9780062868879 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 304 str.

Amanda Montell

Opis

Even before its usage to mean "a female canine," bitch didn't refer to women at all-it originated as a gender-neutral word for "genitalia." A perfectly innocuous word devolving into an insult directed at females is the case for tons more terms, including hussy, which simply meant "housewife";