Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language Audiobook (Free)

A brash, enlightening, and wildly entertaining feminist look at gendered vocabulary and just how it forms us, written with laughter and playfulness that difficulties content and how exactly we use them.

“I get so jazzed about the continuing future of feminism understanding that Amanda Montell’s brilliance is rising up and going to explode worldwide.”-Jill Soloway

The word bitch conjures many images for many individuals, but it is most often meant to explain an unpleasant woman. Also before its utilization to mean a lady about Wordslut: A Feminist Guidebook to Taking Back the English Language canine, bitch didn’t refer to gender at all-it originated like a gender-neutral phrase signifying genitalia. A flawlessly innocuous word devolving right into a feminine insult is the case for loads more terms, including hussy-which merely intended housewife-or slut, which meant an untidy person and was also used to describe guys. These words are just a few among history’s many British slurs hurled at ladies.

Amanda Montell, reporter and feminist linguist, deconstructs language-from insults and cursing, gossip, and catcalling to sentence structure and pronunciation patterns-to reveal the ways it’s been used for centuries to keep females and other marginalized genders from power. Ever question why so many people are annoyed when women talk with vocal fry or utilize the phrase like like a filler? Or why specific gender-neutral terms stick and others don’t? Or where stereotypes of how men and women speak come from in the first place?

Montell effortlessly goes between history, research, and popular culture to explore these queries and more-and how exactly we may use the answers to effect real social switch. Montell’s irresistible laughter shines through, producing linguistics not only approachable but both downright amusing and profound, proven in chapters such as:

Slutty Skanks and Nasty Dykes: A THOROUGH List of Gendered InsultsHow to Embarrass the Shit Out of People Who Try to Correct Your GrammarFuck it: An Ode to Cursing Even though FemaleCyclops, Panty Puppet, Bald Headed Bastard and 100+ OTHER ACTIVITIES to Contact Your GenitaliaMontell effortlessly goes between background and popular culture to explore these questions and even more. Wordslut reaches the heart of our language, marvels at its elasticity, and sheds much-needed light in to the biases that darkness ladies in our lifestyle and our consciousness.

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