Robin Beth Tolmach Lakoff was an American linguist and professor at the University of California, Berkeley. Her 1975 book Language and Woman's Place is often credited with making language and gender a major subfield focus in linguistics and other disciplines.
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Talking Power
1990
ISBN 9780465083596
Language and woman's place
2004
ISBN 9780195167580
The language war
2000
ISBN 9781282355903