TY - BOOK ID - 138314189 TI - Gendered Words PY - 2015 SN - 0190210427 9780190210410 0190210419 9780190210427 9780190210403 0190272910 PB - New York DB - UniCat KW - Language and sex KW - Chinese language KW - Sex differences. KW - Foreign elements. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:138314189 AB - This is the first ethnography to explore the world's only gender-defined and now disappearing 'women's script', known as nüshu, script circulated exclusively in Jiangyong County of Hunan Province in south China. Based on twenty years of fieldwork conducted since 1992, this book uses nüshu in conjunction with its affiliated singing tradition nüge (women's song), complemented by a life narrative approach, to unfold peasant women's lifeworlds that constitute a summation of shifting realities that engage women's voice (sentiments and perspectives), expression/performance, and practice. ER -