Mother Tongue - Jenni Nuttall | Maiden Mother Matriarch 24
Maiden Mother Matriarch with Louise Perry · Louise Perry
July 16, 20231h 1m
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Dr Jenni Nuttall is a lecturer in English at Exeter College, Oxford and author of the most recent book Mother Tongue: the history of women’s words. On the podcast we discussed the way in which women’s social history can be seen through language; some of the words like gossip, spinsters and testicles; and why Jenni believes that whilst women have made sl…
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