skank

Thu Feb 20 15:57:10 UTC 2003

For more on "skank" (and other popluar dysphemisms for women on college
campuses) see Laurel Sutton's article, "Bitches and Skankly Hobags: The
Place of Women in Contemporary Slang". In Kira Hall & Mary Buckholtz
(eds), _Gender Articulated: Language and the Socially Constructed Self_.
pp. 279-296. NY: Routledge.

Kate

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Kathryn Remlinger, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of English: Linguistics
Department of English
Grand Valley State University
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Allendale, MI 49401 USA
remlingk at gvsu.edu
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