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Household Words: Bloomers, Sucker, Bombshell, Scab, Nigger, Cyber Stephanie A Smith 1st edition
Household Words: Bloomers, Sucker, Bombshell, Scab, Nigger, Cyber
Stephanie A Smith
A study of how certain words act as indices of political and social change, perpetuating anxieties and prejudices even as those ways of thinking have been seemingly resolved or overcome by history. This book specifically discusses six words whose meanings are mistakenly understood to be "common sense."
264 pages, 5 halftones
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | 2006 |
| ISBN13 | 9780816645527 |
| Publishers | University of Minnesota Press |
| Pages | 264 |
| Dimensions | 137 × 216 × 17 mm · 367 g |
| Language | English |