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The Failure of “She: An Evaluation of Solutions to Gendered Language [PDF]

, 2015
This thesis looks at the prevalence of gendered language in modern day English in North America. Drawing upon different analyses of masculine pronouns and slang, this paper argues that modern solutions to gendered language fail to come to terms with the ...
Bobbitt, Mary L
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Young children's right to be heard on the quality of their education: Addressing potential misunderstandings in the context of early childhood education

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract In early childhood education many researchers and professionals across the world have embraced the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child's requirement to include young children in decision‐making. In the context of ongoing discussion about young children's capacity to share their views and opinions about matters affecting them ...
Laura Lundy, Colette Murray, Kylie Smith, Carmel Ward   +3 more
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On Gender Marking in the English Language

Язык и текст, 2020
The paper is concerned with a diachronic study of gender marking in the English language. The study aims to trace the evolution of markers differentiating the grammatical category of gender.
Y.V. Yarovikova
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Linguistic Sexism in the Iranian EFL Junior High School Textbooks

Journal of Advance Research in Social Science and Humanities (ISSN: 2208-2387), 2017
Gender biased textbook can internalize the sexist concept and can affect the students’ mindset and behavior against the other gender. As in Iran, school textbooks are the only resource for majority of both teachers and students, unbiased textbooks are necessary for students to build up their role in addressing the other gender in their lives and ...
Shapour Vahdatinejad, Bahiyah Abdul Hamid   +1 more
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GENDER ORDERING AS AN INDICATOR OF LINGUISTIC SEXISM IN STANDARD AVERAGE EUROPEAN LANGUAGES

European Journal of Literature, Language and Linguistics Studies, 2021
The examination of gender in relation to language is an interdisciplinary endeavour that has been the subject of interest of linguists, sociologists, anthropologists, communication experts, psychologists, and scholars in other disciplines, especially after the 1960s, having as its starting point the feminist movements by the end of that decade.
Leonidas Pappas, Ioannis D. Karras
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Motivos de la ausencia de propuestas para un lenguaje no sexista en chino [PDF]

, 2014
Reasons for the absence of proposals for non-sexist language in Chinese. In this article we examine what are the reasons why in the Chinese language there are not so many proposals for non-sexist language as in the Spanish language. The analysis is based
Xinwei, Zhao
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‘Where are the adults?’: Troubling child‐activism and children's political participation

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Children's political participation is a well‐established theme in childhood studies. In this article we offer an original account of child activism that takes into account the entangled and emergent aspect of children as activists. We begin with a historical and a conceptual review, noting the importance of mid‐20th century developments such ...
Sharon Hunter, Claire Cassidy
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‘Tainted Pearls of Wisdom’ . A thematic analysis of the representation of women in Egyptian proverbs

Anàlisi: Quaderns de Comunicació i Cultura
This article discusses the representation of women in Colloquial Egyptian proverbs (CEPs). Even though myriad studies have tackled the image of women in many linguistic genres, this is the first study to discursively examine such portrayal in Egyptian ...
Mohamed El-Nashar, Heba Nayef, Sally Samy Tayie, Rania Samir Youssef   +3 more
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Impact of Undergraduate Language and Gender Research: Challenges and Reflections in the Context of Qatar

Gender Studies, 2017
The paper aims at raising female students’ awareness about sexism in language and designing and applying sociocultural linguistic interventions in Qatar.
Theodoropoulou Irene
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‘I don't think I can catch it’: women, confidence and responsibility in football coach education [PDF]

, 2011
Whilst women’s participation in sport continues to increase, their presence remains ideologically challenging given the significance of sport for the construction of gendered identities.
Bains J., Benwell B., Beth Fielding‐Lloyd, Football Association, Foucault M., Foucault M., Gumperz J., Knoppers A., Knoppers A., Lindsey Meân, Lopez S., Meân L.J., Meân L.J., Sacks H., Shaw S., Shaw S., Sugden J., Timson‐Katchis M., Tracy K., Weltman D.   +19 more
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