Based on Dennis Baron’s own empirical research, What’s Your Pronoun? chronicles the story of the role pronouns have played—and continue to play—in establishing both our rights and our identities.
It is an essential work in understanding how 21st-century culture has evolved.
Joe Moran said in a review for The New York Times that Baron’s book “layers on rather too many examples of historical usage, including a 60-page “chronology of gender-neutral and nonbinary pronouns” at the end. This scholarly assiduousness, though, also makes him the ideal pilot through these contentious political-linguistic waters. If you want to know why more people are asking ‘what’s your pronoun?’ then you (singular or plural) should read this book.”
Moran added: “The point about pronouns is that they replace nouns, and thus trade the specific for the generic — so they will probably catch on only when they are inconspicuous.”
The critic said: “In writing, a pronoun that draws attention to itself stops the reader’s eye and checks their pace at the wrong point in a sentence.”
