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THE MASCULINE GENDER OF THE GENERIC NAME STYRAX LINNAEUS (STYRACACEAE)

Taxon, 1976
SummaryBotanists have used Styrax in all genders. The etymology of Styrax, the problems with its classical and dictionary genders, and arguments for and against the various botanical genders are evaluated. We find that the Linnaean adoption of neuter was a simple error, the use of feminine has only theoretical justification and that masculine gender ...
Dan H Nicolson
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Using masculine generics: Does generic he increase male bias in the user's imagery?

Sex Roles, 1988
Previous research has shown that experimenter-presented masculine generics can create male bias in the gender content of subjects' imagery. The present study tests experimentally whether subjects' own use of masculine generics has a similar effect on their imagery.
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Readers' Perceptions of Four Alternatives to Masculine Generic Pronouns

Journal of Social Psychology, 2001
Laura Madson
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Generational masculinities: two generations of Chinese gay men in Hong Kong

2023
The research presented in this chapter seeks a dialogue between masculinity studies and generational sexuality studies through comparison of two generations of gay men in Hong Kong: older gay men born before the 1950s and young gay men born after 1990.
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The makings of a man: social generational masculinities in Bangladesh

Journal of Gender Studies, 2017
The emergence of specific forms of masculinity is bounded by space and time. While attention has been given to the contexts within which forms of masculinity develop, rather less is known about men...
Md Kamrul Hasan, Peter Aggleton, Asha Persson   +2 more
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Youthful Muslim Masculinities: Gender and Generational Relations

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 2006
There is evidence of two main discourses about the masculinities of young Muslim men – one that emphasizes patriarchy and aggression, the other effeminacy and academicism – and together they offer polarized perspectives of young Muslim men's masculinities.
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Generations of Despair: Theocracy, Masculinity and Patriarchy as Reflected in Kirwant

Journal of Teaching and Research in English Literature, 2023
Patriarchy, when held as one of the highest forms of virtues or universalised truth of society subjugates women, children, and particularly men. ‘Kirwant’ compels an observation of quintessential Indian men, their children, and women within one such system. Originally published in Marathi, it voices exploitation of the kirwants, brahmin-subcaste. Their
null Vinayaki Yadav, null Manjiree Vaidya   +1 more
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Masculinity/Femininity of the Generations: As Self-Reported and as Stereotypically Appraised

The International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 1976
Three hundred seventeen adults divided among the young adult, middle aged, and old generations were asked (a) to judge which of the three generations was most and least masculine/feminine in overall personality style, masculine/feminine in interests and possession of gender skills, and pressured by society to do masculine/feminine sorts of things; and (
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Generic pronouns and sexist language: The oxymoronic character of masculine generics

Sex Roles, 1990
This experiment investigated the propensity of the generic he to evoke images of males relative to he/she and the plural they. Undergraduates read sentences aloud and verbally described the images that came to mind. The results provide strong support for the hypothesis that the generic he evokes a disproportionate number of male images.
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Icelandic. Masculine generics in current Icelandic

2002
1.Introduction 2. Gender in the linguistic structure of Icelandic 2.1 Grammatical gender 2.2 Grammatical gender and personal reference 2.3 Masculine generics 2.4 Occupational titles for women 3. Language and gender in Iceland 4.
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