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100 1  Nuttall, Jennifer Anne,|d1975-|eauthor. 
245 10 Mother tongue|h[OverDrive/Libby electronic resource] :
       |bthe surprising history of women's words /|cJenni 
       Nuttall. 
264  1 [New York] :|bViking,|c2023. 
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505 0  Introduction: Women's words -- Cors: words for female 
       anatomy -- Flux: menstrual language -- Lust: sex and its 
       terms -- Matrix: the womb's words -- Nurse: the language 
       of care -- Industry: working words -- Ghyrles and hags: 
       words for ages and stages -- Fors: naming male violence --
       Custom and tyranny: finding feminism's vocabulary. 
520    "An enlightening linguistic journey through a thousand 
       years of feminist language - and what we can learn from 
       the vivid vocabulary that English once had for women's 
       bodies, experiences, and sexuality. So many of the words 
       that we use to chronicle women's lives feel awkward or 
       alien. Medical terms are scrupulously accurate but 
       antiseptic. Slang and obscenities have shock value, yet 
       they perpetuate taboos. Where are the plain, honest words 
       for women's daily lives? Mother Tongue is a historical 
       investigation of feminist language and thought, from the 
       dawn of Old English to the present day. Dr. Jenni Nuttall 
       guides readers through the evolution of words that we have
       used to describe female bodies, menstruation, women's 
       sexuality, the consequences of male violence, childbirth, 
       women's paid and unpaid work, and gender. Along the way, 
       she challenges our modern language's ability to 
       insightfully articulate women's shared experiences by 
       examining the long-forgotten words once used in English 
       for female sexual and reproductive organs. Nuttall also 
       tells the story of words like womb and breast, whose 
       meanings have changed over time, as well as how anatomical
       words such as hysteria and hysterical came to have such 
       loaded legacies. Inspired by today's heated debates about 
       words like womxn and menstruators-and by more personal 
       conversations with her teenage daughter-Nuttall describes 
       the profound transformations of the English language. In 
       the process, she unearths some surprisingly progressive 
       thinking that challenges our assumptions about the past - 
       and, in some cases, puts our twenty-first-century society 
       to shame. Mother Tongue is a rich, provocative book for 
       anyone who loves language - and for feminists who want to 
       look to the past in order to move forward"--|cProvided by 
       publisher. 
533    Electronic reproduction.|bNew York|cBooks on Tape|d2023
       |nAvailable via World Wide Web. 
650  0 English language|xEtymology. 
650  0 Women|xTerminology. 
650  0 Women|xLanguage. 
650  0 Feminism. 
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776 08 |iOnline version:|aNuttall, Jennifer Anne, 1975-|tMother 
       tongue|bFirst North American edition.|d[New York] : Viking,
       2023|z9780593299586|w(DLC) 2023028684 
856 40 |zAvailable on OverDrive/Libby|uhttps://
       naperville.overdrive.com/media/9451873