Mother Tongue: The Surprising History of Women's Words -- Jenni Nuttall, Hardcover Ernest Severn Author: Rich Fettke

Author: Rich Fettke

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Mother Tongue: The Surprising History of Women's Words -- Jenni Nuttall, Hardcover Ernest Severn Author: Rich Fettke"A fascinating look at how we talk about women. . . . Dense with information and anecdotes, Mother Tongue touches on the hilarious and the devastating, with ample dashes of an ingredient so painfully absent from most discussions of sex and gender: humor." Lisa Selin Davis, The Washington Post "[Nuttall] examines the origins of words used over many centuries to describe women's bodies, desires, pregnancies, work lives, sexual victimhood, and stages of