# Bearing the Word

> A book by Margaret Homans analyzing the relationship between language and women's experience in the writings of nineteenth-century women authors. Its subtitle is "Language and Female Experience in Nineteenth-Century Women's Writing."

A book by [Margaret Homans](https://wiki.g15e.com/en/pages/Margaret%20Homans.txt) analyzing the relationship between language and women's experience in the writings of <nineteenth-century> women authors. Its subtitle is "Language and Female Experience in Nineteenth-Century Women's Writing."

<Carol J. Adams> found the concept of the [absent referent](https://wiki.g15e.com/en/pages/Absent%20referent.txt) in the opening pages of this book and made it a theoretical foundation of [The Sexual Politics of Meat](https://wiki.g15e.com/en/pages/The%20sexual%20politics%20of%20meat.txt).