The Gender Challenge of Hebrew

The Gender Challenge of Hebrew is the first book to delve in depth into gender representation over the 3,000-year history of Hebrew. Malka Muchnik analyses the grammatical characteristics of gender, reveals social and cultural issues reflected, and presents challenges for achieving change.

About the author

Malka Muchnik, Ph.D. (1992), Bar-Ilan University, is senior lecturer in the Department of Hebrew and Semitic Languages at Bar-Ilan. She authored Language, Culture and Society (Hebrew) and many articles on Sociolinguistics, and is founder and first editor of Israel Studies in Language and Society.

Product details

• Authors: Malka Muchnik
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.09.2014
• EAN: 9789004282704
• ISBN: 978-90-04-28270-4
• No. of pages: 266
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 239 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 540 g
• Series: Brill Reference Library of Jud
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories