Publications

Publication details [#17989]

Livia, Anna. 2001. Pronoun Envy: Literary Uses of Linguistic Gender. (Studies in Language and Gender). Oxford University Press. x + 237 pp.

Publication type

Book – monograph

Publication language

English

Keywords

feminism | gender | linguistic norm | literature | pronoun

Annotation

Following a discussion of the sexist language reform movement and the issue of gendered pronoun use in Western feminist linguistics, the author lists and evaluates a number of solutions based on a corpus of French and English feminist novels.

Reviewed by

Winter, Joanne. 2001. Review of $Pronoun Envy: Literary Uses of Linguistic Gender.

McConnell-Ginet, Sally. 2003. Review of $Pronoun Envy: Literary Uses of Linguistic Gender.