Robin Lakoff

Robin Lakoff

Robin Tolmach Lakoff (November 27, 1942) is a professor of linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley. Her 1975 book Language and Woman's Place is often credited with establishing language and gender as an object of study in linguistics and other disciplines.

Read more about Robin Lakoff:  Biography, Language and Woman's Place, The Language War

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