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Icelandic. Masculine generics in current Icelandic

IMPACT: Studies in Language and Society, 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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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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Ladies First or Ladies Last: Do Masculine Generics Evoke a Reduced and Later Retrieval of Female Exemplars? [PDF]

Collabra: Psychology, 2022
The use of masculine generics (i.e., grammatically masculine forms that refer to both men and women) is prevalent in many languages but has been criticized for potentially triggering male bias.
Tobias Richter, Yoel Inbar, Nina Keith
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Name Your Favorite Musician: Effects of Masculine Generics and of their Alternatives in German [PDF]

Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 2001
Feminist linguists claim that masculine forms used in a generic sense (e.g. he referring to a doctor irrespective of sex) facilitate the cognitive representation of men compared to women and make women less visible.
Sabine Sczesny
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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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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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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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