Feminism and the English Language with W...

First released in 2001, the animated film Spirited Away captured the imagination of people around the globe - and continues to create conversation. Anney and Samantha dig into themes of greed, transition and identity.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. 

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Yves drops in to shine a light on Henrietta Duterte, the first woman owner of a funeral home in the US.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. 

<p>I couldn't wait to release this episode with Amanda Montell, a feminist sociolinguist, author of 2 books, and all-out empowering human! This educational episode explores the dynamics between feminism, cults, and the language we use.</p> <p>You will learn...</p> <ul> <li>the ma ... Show More

Modern English speakers struggle to find sexual terms that aren’t either obscene or scientific, but that wasn’t always the case. In a recent review of Jenni Nuttall’s Mother Tongue, Mary Wellesley connects our linguistic squeamishness to changing ideas about women and sexuality. ... Show More

Amanda Montell is a writer, linguist, and author of the critically acclaimed book Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language, which has earned praise from readers and critics alike, including publications like The New York Times, Time Magazine, and Harper's Ba ... Show More

Amanda Montell (@amandamontell) is a language scholar and author of critically acclaimed Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language. Her latest book is Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism, which explores how cults co-opt the words we use in order to control us ... Show More

Language can reflect and reinforce gender expectations. Are there ways to make language more inclusive? 

Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie discusses negative stereotypes of feminism, the implications of chivalry on gender roles and her book "Dear Ijeawele." Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy infor ... Show More

The girlies discuss the politics of gossip - how it serves us evolutionarily, how women used it as a feminist act of resistance, and why it's commonly dismissed as surface-level shit talk. Digressions include some revelations about 9/11, whether or not it's ethical to work remote ... Show More

<p>Sam Harris speaks with Meghan Daum about her book "The Problem with Everything." They discuss contemporary feminism, violence against women, campus sexual assault, moral panics, new norms of conversation, the 2020 Presidential campaign, and other topics. </p> <p>If the Making ... Show More

Amanda Montell is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality, as well as Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism and Wordslut. Amanda is a linguistics major from NYU and all of her work centers around the way that words— ... Show More