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Early ERP indices of gender-biased processing elicited by generic masculine role nouns and the feminine–masculine pair form

Brain and Language, 2023
In most gender-marked languages, the masculine form is used to refer to male people specifically as well as to people of any gender generically. This dual functionality was shown in behavioral studies to lead to male-biased mental representations. Here, using EEG, we targeted the neurophysiological basis of this bias by investigating whether and how ...
Sarah Glim   +3 more
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Generic masculine words and thinking

Women's Studies International Quarterly, 1980
Synopsis It has been alleged that, in appropriate verbal contexts, man and he are generic, i.e. that the words include women as well as men, as for example in, Man is mortal, or One must watch his language. Many feminists argue for the elimination of this generic use of man and he and the substitution of such non-male words as people and they. Others
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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.
John Gastil
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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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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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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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