women and cars

[MJ Hardman]

Madeleine Mathiot in Boas Whorf Sapir Revisited -- the first very long
article by her; she also edited.  Superb exploration of the whole issue.

Dr. MJ Hardman
website:  http://grove.ufl.edu/~hardman/


On 05/14/2003 11:07 AM, "Kathryn Remlinger" <remlingk at GVSU.EDU> wrote:

> I have a student who is researching the use of the prounoun "she" and
> female-marked names to reference cars. She has found some discussion on
> this topic (Spender, Dinnerstein, and others) but she would like more
> current research to study. Can anyone recommend sources?
>
> Many thanks,
> Kate
>
> ____________________
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> Department of English
> Grand Valley State University
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