Bad Language
by
So Mayer
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1913512797
ISBN-13
9781913512798
Publisher
Peninsula Press Ltd
Imprint
Peninsula Press Ltd
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Nov 13th, 2025
Print length
176 Pages
Weight
176 grams
Dimensions
13.10 x 19.80 x 1.60 cms
Product Classification:
Literary essaysEssaysFeminism and feminist theoryFeminism & feminist theory
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In Bad Language, So Mayer blends memoir and manifesto as they explore the politics of speech, while looking at how language has been used – and abused – in their own life.
In Bad Language, So Mayer blends memoir and manifesto as they explore the politics of speech, while looking at how language has been used - and abused - in their own life. What is the relationship between language and sexual violence? And how can we ''make ourselves up'' in language, when words themselves are encoded by a dominant culture that insists we see ourselves as powerless listeners rather than active speakers? Examining the semantic traps of their own multi-lingual childhood - and taking in texts from the Torah to Grimms'' Fairytales, from protest march bust cards to the works of Ursula K. Le Guin - Mayer asks who gets to speak, and who is forced into silence. Bad Language calls out the harm that words can do, while searching for crafty ways that we can collectively reclaim language for protest and pleasure.
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