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Household Words

Bloomers, Sucker, Bombshell, Scab, Nigger, Cyber

By: Stephanie Smith

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Paperback | 1 April 2006

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Looking in detail at words that "treat people as things, and things as people, and do so at that strange space where joking, ridiculing, demeaning, oppressing, resisting, and regretting converge," "Household Words" is a study of how certain words act as indices of political and social change, perpetuating anxieties and prejudices even as those ways of thinking have been seemingly resolved or overcome by history.
Specifically, Stephanie A. Smith examines six words--"bloomer, sucker, bombshell, scab, nigger," and "cyber"--and explores how these words with their contemporary "universal" meaning appeal to a dangerous idea about what it means to be human, an idea that denies our history of conflict. She traces "bombshell" from Marilyn Monroe through women's liberation and the sexual revolution to Monica Lewinsky, "scab" from blemish to strikebreaker, "sucker" from lollipop to the routinely cheated. Exposing the ambiguities in each of the words, Smith reveals that our language is communal and cutting, democratic and discriminatory, social and psychological.
Stephanie A. Smith is associate professor of English at the University of Florida and the author of "Conceived by Liberty: Maternal Figures and Nineteenth-Century American Literature" as well as three novels.

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Non-Fiction Language & Linguistics Language Learning & Teaching Language Teaching & Learning Material & Coursework Grammar, Vocabulary & Pronunciation Sociology & Anthropology Literature, Poetry & Plays History & Criticism of Literature General Literary Studies History Regional & National History History of the Americas

Society & Culture Cultural Studies Popular Culture Linguistics Historical & Comparative Linguistics

Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction: Forgetting How to Read	p. xv
Bloomers	p. 1
Sucker	p. 37
Bombshell	p. 69
Scab	p. 97
Nigger	p. 123
Cyber	p. 151
Notes	p. 171
Bibliography	p. 183
Index	p. 197
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