Mother Tongue Ashland072923 not just three

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and Lee Child—with an introduction by Pulitzer Prize–winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen

who has captivated generations

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Mother Tongue Ashland072923 not just threeA fascinating look at how we talk about women. . . . Dense with information and anecdotes, Mother Tongue touches on the hilarious and the devastating, with ample dashes of an ingredient so painfully absent from most discussions of sex and gender: humor. Lisa Selin Davis, The Washington Post[Nuttall] examines the origins of words used over many centuries to describe womens bodies, desires, pregnancies, work lives, sexual victimhood, and stages of life.