Words and women

Author's name: Marina Yagilodar Publisher: Cultural Center for Books Year of publication: 2021 Literary classification: Psychology Book overview: Masculinity and femininity are biological traits, and thus the origin of fertilization, reproduction, and propagation. They are part of a function in the body that predates civilization and urbanization, but they also determine a position within a symbolic system that is masculine and feminine based on a linguistic support characterized by a particular segmentation of the external perception that often does not consider the reality of gender in what is segmented. The book seeks to answer questions such as: How do women speak? How do they communicate with each other? How do we speak to them? How do we speak about them? Do women and men have different relationships with language? Do they speak different languages? Then where does the cultural identity, and therefore the linguistic identity of women, lie? Why is the language of power outside women, outside women? And what role does gendered metaphor, insinuations, negative metaphors, and forms of semantic and grammatical differences, as well as sexual insults as means of gender ideology, play? How does women's struggle, on the basis of language, join the struggle of other oppressed, marginalized, or deviant minority liberation movements? It also attempts to explore the facets of language in its sexual diversity, which is considered cultural rather than "natural." Yagilodar points out that language is not just a neutral linguistic structure but a polished cultural mirror reflecting prejudgments, stereotypes, and images, while also fueling and maintaining their sustainability at the same time.