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Paperback. Looking in detail at words that "treat people as things, and things as people, and do so at that strange space where joking, ridiculing, demeaning, oppressing, resisting, and regretting converge," this book is a study of how certain words act as indices of political and social change, perpetuating anxieties and prejudices even as those ways of thinking have been seemingly resolved or overcome by history. A study of how certain words act as indices of political and social change, perpetuating anxieties and prejudices even as those ways of thinking have been seemingly resolved or overcome by history. This book specifically discusses six words whose meanings are mistakenly understood to be "common sense." Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9780816645534
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Title: Household Words (Paperback)
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press, Minnesota
Publication Date: 2006
Binding: Paperback
Condition: new
Edition: 1st Edition
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