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by William Still

Mother Tongue: The Surprising History of Women's Words Poetry_Gift_Guide she discovers it might beA fascinating look at how we talk about women. . . . Dense with information and anecdotes, Mother Tongue touches on the hilarious and the devastating, with ample dashes of an ingredient so painfully absent from most discussions of sex and gender: humor. Lisa Selin Davis, The Washington Post [Nuttall] examines the origins of words used over many centuries to describe womens bodies, desires, pregnancies, work lives, sexual victimhood, and stages of