Ehrlich Susan - Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

The handbook of language, gender, and sexuality / edited by Susan Ehrlich, Miriam Meyerhoff, Janet Holmes. - Second edition.

pages cm. - (Blackwell handbooks in linguistics)

Includes index.

ISBN 978-0-470-65642-6 (hardback)

1. Language and sex. 2. Language and sex-Handbooks, manuals, etc. I. Ehrlich, Susan (Susan Lynn) editor of compilation. II. Meyerhoff, Miriam, editor of compilation. III. Holmes, Janet, 1947- editor of compilation.

P120.S48H37 2014

306.44-dc23

2013042749

Hardback ISBN: 978-0-470-65642-6

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

Cover image: Umberto Boccioni, Under the Pergola at Naples, 1914. De Agostini / Getty Images

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1 2014

For our mothers,

Bernice Bunny Ehrlich, Mary Meyerhoff Cresswell, and Muriel Quirk