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81: Mother Tongue (with Jenni Nuttall)

81: Mother Tongue (with Jenni Nuttall)

Because Language - a podcast about linguistics, the science of language. · Daniel Midgley and Hedvig Skirgård

September 2, 20231h 49mExplicit

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Show Notes

Women's bodies, women's occupations, women's experiences. So often in history, the discourse about women has been by men, about women. And that means that women's words have been lost.

Dr Jenni Nuttall has charted the lost history of women's words in her new book Mother Tongue: The Surprising History of Women's Words, and she joins us for this episode.