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Cover -- Introduction -- I. Of What We Speak -- II. Why Study the Regulation of Speech: The Canary in a Coal Mine -- III. The Lens of this Research -- 1. Social Control as a paradigm of Criminal Law -- 2. Moral Panic and Social Control -- 3. Economic Status Quo -- IV. Road Map -- Chapter 1 Regulation of Sexualized Speech in the United States -- I. Protected v. Unprotected Sexualized Speech -- 1. The Scarlet Letter of Speech: Obscenity Regulation 1791 to 1957 -- a) Early Years of the Republic to the Civil War -- b) The Comstock Era

Introduction -- Pick-up artists and the seduction industry -- Lexical aspects of pick-up artist discourse -- The pragmatics of pick-up artist interactions -- Conversations in the field -- Teaching and selling seduction -- Conclusion -- Appendix A: Transcription conventions -- Appendix B: Lists of videos included in PUA-Lecture and PUA-How-To -- Glossary of pick-up artist terms.

Controversy over gendered pronouns, for example using the generic "he," has been a staple of feminist arguments about patriarchal language over the last 30 years, and is certainly the most contested political issue in Western feminist linguistics. Most accounts do not extend beyond policy issues like the official institution of non-sexist language. In this volume, Anna Livia reveals continuities both before and after the sexist language refore movement and shows how the creative practices of pronoun use on the part of feminist writers had both aesthetic and political ends. Livia uses