{"product_id":"bad-language-4","title":"Bad Language","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eBad Language\u003c\/i\u003e, So Mayer blends memoir and manifesto as they explore the politics of speech, while looking at how language has been used – and abused – in their own life. What is the relationship between language and sexual violence? And how can we ‘make ourselves up’ in language when words themselves are encoded by a dominant culture that insists we see ourselves as powerless listeners rather than active speakers?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExamining the semantic traps of their multi-lingual childhood – and taking in texts from the Torah to Grimms’ Fairytales, from protest bust cards to the works of Ursula K. Le Guin – Mayer asks who gets to speak, and who is forced into silence. \u003ci\u003eBad\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eLanguage\u003c\/i\u003e calls out the harm that words can do, while searching for crafty ways through which we can collectively reclaim language for protest and pleasure.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Peninsula Press Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55807588893016,"sku":"9781913512798","price":18.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781913512798_f161cb33-7219-4fef-b685-838d1c328996.jpg?v=1769123738","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/bad-language-4","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}