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Words for Women’s Work. Edition No. 1
VDM Publishing House, Aug 2008, Pages: 100
Does our choice of words and use of language somehow
sabotage respect due to women for
the work they do? Can the analysis of words for
women’s work at home, or for the family, explain or
reveal attitudes?
This book is about Japanese words, and English, used
to describe traditional tasks that women perform. Is
it significant that the important and time consuming
task of bearing and rearing children, and caring for
disabled and elderly, is subsumed under a simple
term care, which basically is a verb of attitude or
emotion? The verb nurse, which indicates a role,
conjures up a figure, not the hard work a person who
nurses somebody may have to do. There are important
links between language and identity.
This book a slightly adapted version of a thesis
for a Cand. Philol. degree in Japanese, submitted to
the University of Oslo in 2007. It should be of
interest to teachers and students of language. But
it is also of interest to all concerned with women’s
position in society, who wish to plan for a social
order where women are respected for the work they
do.
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