The Materiality of Language: Gender, Politics, and the University

by David Bleich

Book Overview

David Bleich sees the human body, its affective life, social life, and political functions as belonging to the study of language. In The Materiality of Language, Bleich addresses the need to end centuries of limiting access to language and its many contexts of use. To recognize language as material and treat it as such, argues Bleich, is to remove restrictions to language access due to historic patterns of academic censorship and unfair...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253007720
• ISBN13: 9780253007728
• Release Date: June 2013
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 548 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher