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Icelandic. Masculine generics in current Icelandic

open access: yesIMPACT: 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.
Anna Gunnarsdotter Grönberg
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Ladies First or Ladies Last: Do Masculine Generics Evoke a Reduced and Later Retrieval of Female Exemplars? [PDF]

open access: yesCollabra: 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.
Nina Keith   +2 more
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Masculine Generics and Gender-aware Alternatives in Spanish

open access: yes, 2014
IZGOnZeit. Onlinezeitschrift des Interdisziplinären Zentrums für Geschlechterforschung (IZG), IFFOnZeit Nr. 3 (2014)
Kaufmann, Christiane, Bohner, Gerd
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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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Is There a Woman in Los Candidatos? Gender Perception with Masculine “Generics” and Gender-Fair Language Strategies in Spanish [PDF]

open access: yesLanguages
This 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, Marina Ortega-Andrés
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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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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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