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Janice MacDonald; $14.95 paper 0-88801-256-X, 252 pp., 5 x 7-1/2, Turnstone Press, Apr. Reviewed from finished book
Sticks and stones will break my bones but names can never hurt me, the childhood rhyme goes. But over the past decade feminists and other left-wing theorists have made naming a central concern, arguing that the one who names is the one who holds the power. Words can have real consequences in the real world, as...