a history of female language

To fully understand the new movements towards female empowerment through profane language, a history of female language must first be discussed.  Language is perhaps the most important form of human communication and through its acquisition, humans are able to integrate into society and become social beings.  But part of this social nature of language is that it also reinforces gender and class stereotypes and situates each person into their respective categories.Silence has long been used to describe feminine discourse and represent the ways in which women have been denied the opportunity to express themselves freely through language. 

 

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Kaplan, Cora. “Language and Gender.” The Feminist Critique of Language. 2nd ed. New York: Routledge, 1998. 56.

 

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