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Deborah Cameron, On Language and Sexual Politics.

Publication: Women and Language
Publication Date: 22-MAR-07 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Deborah Cameron, On Language and Sexual Politics.(Book review)

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Deborah Cameron, On Language and Sexual Politics. Routledge, 2006. Reviewed by Anita Taylor, Professor Emeritus, George Mason University

On Language and Sexual Politics, by Deborah Cameron brings together much of her important scholarship on this topic. The collection includes four items not previously published, one of which is an explanation of the reason for the collection and book title, a name that she says reflects the nature of most of her work in that it treats the relationship between language and gender "primarily as a political issue" (1). Three of the chapters were previously conference or lecture presentations and at least two of the others appeared in sources not widely available, even in these days of electronic retrieval.

One of the most interesting parts of the book is that she introduces each chapter by setting it in context. She notes where each piece fit within the...

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