A brash, enlightening, and wildly entertaining feminist look at gendered language and the way it shapes us, written with humor and playfulness that challenges words and phrases and how we use them.
“I get so jazzed about the future of feminism knowing that Amanda Montell’s brilliance is rising up and about to explode worldwide.”—Jill Soloway
The word bitch conjures many images for many people, but it is most often meant to describe an unpleasant woman. Even before its usage to mean a female canine, bitch didn’t refer to gender at all—it originated as a gender-neutral word meaning genitalia. A perfectly innocuous word devolving into a female insult is the case for tons more terms, including hussy—which simply meant housewife—or slut, which meant an untidy person and was also used to describe men. These words are just a few among history’s many English slurs hurled at women.
Amanda Montell, reporter and feminist linguist, deconstructs language—from insults and cursing, gossip, and catcalling to grammar and pronunciation patterns—to reveal the ways it has been used for centuries to keep women and other marginalized genders from power. Ever wonder why so many people are annoyed when women talk with vocal fry or use the word like as a filler? Or why certain gender-neutral terms stick and others don’t? Or where stereotypes of how women and men speak come from in the first place?
Montell effortlessly moves between history, science, and popular culture to explore these questions and more—and how we can use the answers to effect real social change. Montell’s irresistible humor shines through, making linguistics not only approachable but both downright hilarious and profound, demonstrated in chapters such as:
Slutty Skanks and Nasty Dykes: A Comprehensive List of Gendered Insults
How to Embarrass the Shit Out of People Who Try to Correct Your Grammar
Fuck it: An Ode to Cursing While Female
Cyclops, Panty Puppet, Bald Headed Bastard and 100+ Other Things to Call Your Genitalia
Montell effortlessly moves between history and popular culture to explore these questions and more. Wordslut gets to the heart of our language, marvels at its elasticity, and sheds much-needed light into the biases that shadow women in our culture and our consciousness.
- 追溯辱女词汇的词源演变与语义贬损
- 揭示语言使用中的隐性性别权力结构
- 探讨女性语言习惯被污名化的社会成因
- 关注性别平等与女性主义议题的读者
- 对社会语言学及语言权力感兴趣的人群
- 希望提升批判性思维与话语权的青年
- 保持开放心态，接纳作者幽默犀利的文风
- 结合中文语境反思语言中的性别偏见
- 关注词义演变背后的社会文化权力变迁
- 语言是性别权力斗争的重要前沿阵地
- 词义演变折射出深层的社会不平等结构
- 通过重构语言可助力女性夺回话语权
本导读基于书籍简介、目录、原文摘录、短评和书评生成，不等同于全文精读。
- "一个小男孩和他的父亲遭遇车祸，父亲在车祸中丧生，小男孩被迅速送到医院并准备紧急手术。外科医生走进手术室，一看就说：“我不能给他做手术——那是我儿子。”这是怎么回事？这种情况让很多人疑惑不解，觉得男孩的父亲不是已经死了吗，怎么还能去给他儿子做手术？只有少数几个人得出结论，说那位外科医生实际上是小男孩的母亲。啊，多么罕见的、奇异的“女”外科医生。"
- "Language can be an empowering resource for women who wish to move up in the world; it has been for generations. A striking example: In 1978 award-winning linguist Susan Gal traveled to Austria to study a small, poor Hungarian-speaking village that had ended up on Austrian soil due to how the borders"
- "People have looked down upon the way women use language for centuries, and like Otto Jespersen and Bob Garfield, they often write off women’s communication styles as stupid and annoying. But observers of gender and foreign language have noticed that when there truly is a significant difference betwe"
- "One of our culture’s least helpful pieces of advice is that women need to change the way they speak to sound less “like women” (or that queer people need to sound straighter, or that people of color need to sound whiter). The way any of these folks talk isn’t inherently more or less worthy of respec"
- "倾向于过度道歉； 形容词“含义空洞不明”，比如“This chocolate mousse is heavenly”（这巧克力慕斯棒极了）； 过分礼貌，比如“不知道你是否介意我……”； 过分强调，比如“那个演出我爱死了！”； 表达请求不直接，比如会说“我感觉包裹还在楼下哎”，而不是直接说“你能去拿一下包裹吗？”； 语法过度矫正（hypercorrection），比如说“between you and I”，而不是“between you and me”（你我之间）； 使用模糊限制语，比如“kind of”（有点）、“you know”； 使用句尾附加问句，比如“那部电影很好看，不是吗？”； 回"
- "So why is it that young women get the harshest dose of criticism for vocal fry, uptalk, like, and other hedges? According to linguists, the way that these speech qualities are perceived has way less to do with the thing being said and way more to do with who’s saying it. In other words, judgments ab"
- "（1）“伊”作为不分性别的第三人称代词历史悠久。尽管上古汉语中并没有真正的第三人称代词，但是“伊”与“彼”“其”“之”“他”都能充当第三人称代词。另外，“伊”从魏晋时期开始作为第三人称代词使用，例如“勿学汝兄，汝兄自不如伊”（《世说新语·品藻》），“羊邓是世婚，江家我顾伊，庾家伊顾我”（《世说新语·方正》），“吾见张时，伊已六十”（《南史》），“薛蟠因伊倔强，将酒照脸泼去”（《红楼梦》）。 （2）“伊”在现代吴语、闽南语、闽东语、莆仙语中仍然大量使用。现代白话文初兴时，“伊”曾被作为第三人称女性代词使用，但今已罕见。 （3）与汉语中其他无性别第三人称代词（如渠、佢、彼、斯人、此人、怹）相比，译"
- "Lakoff’s inventory of lady language included: a tendency to over-apologize, “empty” adjectives (“This chocolate mousse is heavenly”), ultrapolite language (“Would you mind if . . .”), strong emphasis (“I LOVE that show”), indirect requests (“I think the package is still downstairs,” instead of, “Can"
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