Feminism and Linguistic Theory

by St. Martin's Press

Book by St Martin's Press, Cameron, Deborah

Genres: Feminism, Linguistics, Language, Nonfiction, Research, Politics, Gender

247 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1985

About the author

St. Martin's Press is a book publisher headquartered in Manhattan, New York City, in the Equitable Building. St. Martin's Press is considered one of the largest English-language publishers bringing to the public some 700 titles a year under eight imprints.

The imprints include St. Martin's Press (mainstream and bestseller books), St. Martin's Griffin (mainstream paperback books, including science fiction and romance), Minotaur (mystery, suspense, and thrillers), Picador (specialty books), Thomas Dunne Books (suspense and mainstream), and All Points Books (politics).

Reviews

[Nóra Máthé · Rating 1 out of 5]

Whiny and in many cases sloppy when it comes to referencing actual studies and issues. It has barely anything to do with linguistics, it's a self indulgent book of thoughts about feminism and language which has been covered multiple times much more thoroughly than in this book. It is easy to read, but it does not say much. Most of the points Cameron addresses are just literal whining about some basic realities such as academic language not being easily digestible for anyone. I find most of her problems to be non-issues. Also, it is very dated too, in 2017 you can definitely feel that this was written in the 80s.

[Michelle Renyé]

I have underlined this book like a maniac. At times I have not agreed on some idea, but times have produced such social change that I am sure Cameron might agree with me now. I do recommend it whenever I have the chance! I love this book!

[niina · Rating 2 out of 5]

I had extremely hard time trying to get interested in this, getting through the process took some serious psyching every other fifteen minutes. Cameron covers some great and interesting and important areas of gender studies here, but it turned out I'm not too into her style of writing and teaching, even though the conversational sensations surely make this softer and less preachy and boring than it could be. One read-through wasn't enough for me to get the most important and up-to-date insights out of this, luckily I make notes so I didn't have to read it again completely, I'm not sure I could have endured that.

[Farah Akram · Rating 5 out of 5]

How can i read it? Its not opening.