Articulating Difference: Sex and Language in the German Nineteenth Century

by Sophie Salvo

Book Overview

Enriches contemporary debates about gender and language by probing the histories of the philosophy and sciences of language.

Drawing on a wide range of texts, from understudied ethnographic and scientific works to canonical literature and philosophy, Sophie Salvo uncovers the prehistory of the inextricability of gender and language. Taking German discourses on language as her focus, she argues that we are not the inventors but, rather,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226827720
• ISBN13: 9780226827728
• Release Date: October 2024
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"