Household Words: Bloomers, Sucker, Bombshell, Scab, Nigger, Cyber
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Looking in detail at words that "treat people as things, and things as people, and do so at that strange space where joking, ridiculing, demeaning, oppressing, resisting, and regretting converge," Household Words is a study of how certain words act as indices of political and social change, perpetuating anxieties and prejudices even as those ways of thinking have been seemingly resolved or overcome by history. Specifically, Stephanie A. Smith examines...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0816645531
ISBN13:9780816645534
Release Date:January 2006
Publisher:University of Minnesota Press
Length:264 Pages
Weight:0.60 lbs.
Dimensions:0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"
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