How long does it take to read Language and Woman's Place?
Robin Tolmach Lakoff
Language and Woman's Place by Robin Tolmach Lakoff takes about 1 hour 31 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 1 hour 31 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1975. 83 pages, about 22,825 words.
4 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 2 hours 32 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 1 hour 31 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 57 minutes |
The page count is the median across 8 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Language and Women's Place is a revolutionary text in the field of linguistic anthropology. The new field faced some of the masculinist problems that the field of applied linguistics had had up to this point and Lakoff's work provided a ground breaking feminist take on linguistics. While some of the arguments have dated poorly, specifically methodologically in the usage of personalized accounts and in the universalistic definition of 'women' in place of 'white women.' The 2004 Oxford revision provides a plethora of examples as to why Robin Lakoff's work was and still is crucial to a rounded understanding of feminist discourse.
Subjects: Sex differences, Sex role, Social conditions, Women, Women, social conditions, Sociolinguistics
