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Generic masculine words and thinking
Women's Studies International Quarterly, 1980Synopsis 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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Youthful Muslim Masculinities: Gender and Generational Relations
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 2006There 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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Is There a Woman in Los Candidatos? Gender Perception with Masculine “Generics” and Gender-Fair Language Strategies in Spanish [PDF]
LanguagesThis study examines how several gender-encoding strategies in Spanish and social factors influence gender perception, reinforcing or mitigating a sexist male bias.
Laura Vela Plo +2 more
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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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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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Masculinity/Femininity of the Generations: As Self-Reported and as Stereotypically Appraised
The International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 1976Three 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, 1990This 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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Masculine Generics and Gender-aware Alternatives in Spanish
2014IZGOnZeit. Onlinezeitschrift des Interdisziplinären Zentrums für Geschlechterforschung (IZG), IFFOnZeit Nr. 3 (2014)
Kaufmann, Christiane, Bohner, Gerd
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THE MASCULINE GENDER OF THE GENERIC NAME STYRAX LINNAEUS (STYRACACEAE)
TAXON, 1976SummaryBotanists 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, George C. Steyskal
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Kenyan Political Autobiographies: Reviving Generational Power and Masculine Authority
2020Since Kenya has become independent, political autobiographies have remained instrumental in shaping a (creative) discourse of power that places men as the legitimate holders of authority. Gendered narratives continue to be invoked, whether in times of political campaigning or, as this chapter shows, in the widely appreciated autobiographical genre ...
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Gender Identity and the Self: I. Gender Formation in General and in Masculinity
The Psychoanalytic Review, 2005The question of the origins and vicissitudes of gender identity has been actively debated in the wake of the demise of the classical freudian formulations on sexual differentiation. Subsequently, the issues related to the development and expression of gender identity have been much discussed, with the result that our thinking about such matters has ...
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