What's Your Pronoun?: Beyond He and She

Like trigger warnings and gender-neutral bathrooms, pronouns are sparking a national debate, prompting new policies in schools,...
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Author: Dennis Baron
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What's Your Pronoun?: Beyond He and She by Baron, Dennis

What's Your Pronoun?: Beyond He and She

CHF 34.30

What's Your Pronoun?: Beyond He and She

CHF 34.30
Author: Dennis Baron
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

Like trigger warnings and gender-neutral bathrooms, pronouns are sparking a national debate, prompting new policies in schools, workplaces, even prisons, about what pronouns to use. Colleges ask students to declare their pronouns along with their majors; corporate conferences print name tags with space to add pronouns; email signatures sport pronouns along with names and titles. Far more than a by-product of the culture wars, gender-neutral pronouns are, however, nothing new. Pioneering linguist Dennis Baron puts them in historical context, noting that Shakespeare used singular-they; women invoked the generic use of he to assert the right to vote (while those opposed to women's rights invoked the same word to assert that he did not include she); and people have been coining new gender pronouns, not just hir and zie, for centuries. Based on Baron's own empirical research, What's Your Pronoun? chronicles the story of the role pronouns have played--and continue to play--in establishing both our rights and our identities. It is an essential work in understanding how twenty-first-century culture has evolved.



Author: Dennis Baron
Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation
Published: 01/21/2020
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.50w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9781631496042


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 10/14/2019
Kirkus Reviews 10/15/2019
Library Journal 11/01/2019 pg. 97
Booklist 11/01/2019 pg. 9
Choice 05/01/2022

About the Author
Baron, Dennis: - Dennis Baron professor emeritus of English and linguistics at the University of Illinois, has long been a national commentator on language issues, from the Washington Post to NPR and CNN. A recent Guggenheim Fellow, he lives in Champaign, Illinois.

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