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The Tongue Snatchers

English · Paperback / Softback

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Claudine Herrmann became famous in France with he publication of "Les Voleuses de langue" in 1976. Her much-quoted book is now recognized as a modern classic of feminist literary criticism. Nancy Kline's welcome English translation captures the clarity and passion of observations that go beyond books to boudoirs and boardrooms.
Herrmann charges that language is the fundamental means by which women are oppressed. Their education forces them to parrot masculine discourse, often gets them dismissed as chatterboxes, and silences their real lives. Women who desire to express themselves creatively are obliged to "steal" language or to invent one of their own. Based on readings of major texts in literature, philosophy, and the social sciences, "The Tongue Snatchers" illuminates how men and women differ in their experiences of words, work, space, time, love, and sexuality.


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Nancy Kline is Director of the Writing Project, Barnard College. She is the author of a novel, The Faithful (1969), and of Lightning: The Poetry of René Char (1981).


Summary

Illuminates how men and women differ in their experiences of words, work, space, time, love, and sexuality.

Product details

Authors Claudine Herrmann
Assisted by Nancy Kline (Translation)
Publisher Nebraska
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 01.01.1991
 
EAN 9780803272521
ISBN 978-0-8032-7252-1
No. of pages 178
Dimensions 136 mm x 229 mm x 10 mm
Weight 218 g
Series European Women Writers (Paperb
European Women Writers
European Women Writers (Paperb
Subject Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies

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