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She's a mensch and he's a bitch: neutralizing gender in the 90s

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 October 2008

Rachelle Waksler
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Abstract

An account of how lexical items once confined to one gender have begun to be used for both in American English

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English Today , Volume 11 , Issue 2 , April 1995 , pp. 3 - 6
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1995

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