Gender Shifts in the History of English

Anne Curzan

doi:10.1017/CBO9780511486913

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Frontmatter
pp i-viii

Contents
pp ix-x

Acknowledgments
pp xi-xii

Introduction
pp 1-10

1 - Defining English gender
pp 11-30

2 - The gender shift in histories of English
pp 31-57

3 - A history of gender, people, and pronouns: the story of generic he
pp 58-82

4 - Third-person pronouns in the gender shift: why is that ship a she?
pp 83-132

5 - Gender and asymmetrical word histories: when boys could be girls
pp 133-179

6 - Implications for nonsexist language reform
pp 180-188

Appendix 1 - Background on early English personal pronouns
pp 189-194

Appendix 2 - Helsinki Corpus texts and methodology
pp 195-203

References
pp 204-217

Index
pp 218-223

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