Mother Tongue: The Surprising History of Women’s Words

Katherine Turk, the author of The Women of NOW: How Feminists Built an Organization that Transformed America (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023), is an associate professor of history and adjunct associate professor of women’s and gender studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Katherine Turk

Unpacking Women’s Language: On Jenni Nuttall’s “Mother Tongue”

"Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history." — George Bernard Shaw

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Gender &amp; Sexuality

Katherine Turk, the author of The Women of NOW: How Feminists Built an Organization that Transformed America (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023), is an associate professor of history and adjunct associate professor of women’s and gender studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Katherine Turk

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Unpacking Women’s Language: On Jenni Nuttall’s “Mother Tongue”