Anne Curzan is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Michigan. She has written extensively on the history of English, lexicography, and pedagogy, and is co-author of First Day to Final Grade: A Graduate Student's Guide to Teaching (2000). Professor Curzan is also co-editor of the Journal of English Linguistics.
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Defining English gender
2. The gender shift in histories of English
3. A history of gender, people and pronouns: the story of generic he
4. Third-person pronouns in the gender shift: why is that ship a she?
5. Gender and asymmetrical word histories: when boys could be girls
6. Implications for non-sexist language reform
Appendix 1. Background on early English personal pronouns
Appendix 2. Helsinki corpus texts and methodology
References
Index.
