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Grammatical Gender 69
Natural Gender 73
Leakage Between Grammatical and Natural Gender 82
Problems and Prospects for Reform in Languages
With Grammatical Gender 		85
Exercises and Discussion Questions 88
Annotated Bibliography and Suggestions for Further
Reading 		90
4 ENGLISH--A MAN-MADE LANGUAGE? 91
Spinsters, Old Maids, Hags, and the Word That Rhymes
With Rich: How Women Are Spoken About 		92
Mothers and Workers by Other Names: The Housewife,
the Working Mother, and the Problem Called
Housework 		95
Whores, Sex Kittens, Sluts: Women and Bad Words 98
One Man in Two Is a Woman 102
Pronouns and Pictures 104
Male Subjects/Female Objects 109
Sexism: A Deliberate Master Plan for Language? 111
Exercises and Discussion Questions 117
Annotated Bibliography and Suggestions for Further
Reading 		118
5 WHAT'S IN A NAME? 121
Name Calling 121
Is It Miss or Mrs.? 123
Ladies First? 125
Marked Women 130
The Lesser Man 140
The Invisible Woman: A Rose by Another Name 146
Exercises and Discussion Questions 148
Annotated Bibliography and Suggestions for Further
Reading 		149
6 GENDERED TALK: GOSSIP, SHOP TALK,
AND THE SOUND OF SILENCE 		151
"Women's Language": Fact or Fiction? 153
Getting a Word in Edgewise 157
Is Silence Golden? 160
Wait Till You Hear What Happened to Me! 165
Women Are More Polite, Aren't They? 168
Why Ladies Are Supposed to Talk Properly 172
No Laughing Matter 182
Exercises and Discussion Questions 184
Annotated Bibliography and Suggestions for Further
Reading 		186

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Publication Information: Book Title: Communicating Gender. Contributors: Suzanne Romaine - author. Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. Place of Publication: Mahwah, NJ. Publication Year: 1999. Page Number: viii.
    
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