Bad Language

Name: Bad Language
Brand: Peninsula Press Ltd
SKU: 9781913512798
Price: 2350 KES
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ISBN: 9781913512798

by So Mayer

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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 essays Essays Feminism and feminist theory Feminism & 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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