Household Words: Bloomers, Sucker, Bombshell, Scab, Nigger, Cyber - Stephanie A Smith - Books - University of Minnesota Press - 9780816645534 - 2006
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Household Words: Bloomers, Sucker, Bombshell, Scab, Nigger, Cyber


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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     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released 2006
ISBN13 9780816645534
Publishers University of Minnesota Press
Pages 264
Dimensions 138 × 215 × 13 mm   ·   272 g

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