Language and the Sexes

by Francine Frank, Frank Anshen

Director of the Linguistics Program at SUNY Albany, Francine Frank also teaches in the Women's Studies Program. She has published widely on sexism and language. Frank Anshen teaches linguistics at SUNY, Stony Brook. He is author of Statistics and Language and founder of the New York State Council on Linguistics.

130 pages, Paperback

First published June 30, 1985

Reviews

[Monroe Lemaire · Rating 3 out of 5]

a simple, approachable introduction to how language and social behavior influence each other. contains plenty of anecdotes and examples, but rarely delves deeper than surface level; seems like a good text to begin learning about the subject.

[Kathleen · Rating 1 out of 5]

I just...what...how did this...WHAT?

Maybe this textbook was much better at its time of publication (1983), and maybe it's just little ol' me sitting here in 2013 who has the problem...but I really think that this book istelf has a lot of problems in terms of what it is trying to argue/the execution of that arguing.

Too many examples are too easy. I wish there were a better word for it, but there really isn't. These obsessions over "IS THIS STEREOTYPE REAL?" are frustrating because there is too much generalization across the Frank/Anshen board, so it doesn't matter if the stereotype is real because the examples are so GENERAL/stereotypical in themselves.

[Susan Molloy · Rating 3 out of 5]

Required college reading.
Review: Everyone has an opinion.