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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.
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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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Do masculine pronouns used generically lead to thoughts of men?

Sex Roles, 1983
Six experiments investigated the commonly expressed view that the pronoun he, when used generically, may lead individuals to think more often of male referents. The first experiment validated a semantic differential scale which was constructed to unobtrusively measure subjects' impressions of stimulus persons.
C. Maureen Cole, Frances A. Hill, Leland J. Dayley   +2 more
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THE MASCULINE GENDER OF THE GENERIC NAME STYRAX LINNAEUS (STYRACACEAE)

TAXON, 1976
SummaryBotanists 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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Generation Z: Concept of Masculinity in Courtship Discourse

Psychology and Education: A Multidisciplinary Journal
The concept of masculinity has various meanings based on Filipino thought, which is also associated with the man having his own family, the foundation of society, making it essential to strengthen relationships, especially for parents that starts during courtship.
John Mark Papiona, Lislie Silvano, Nelson Urgil, Aldwin Amat   +3 more
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Masculine Generics and Gender-aware Alternatives in Spanish

2014
IZGOnZeit. Onlinezeitschrift des Interdisziplinären Zentrums für Geschlechterforschung (IZG), IFFOnZeit Nr. 3 (2014)
Kaufmann, Christiane, Bohner, Gerd
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Icelandic. Masculine generics in current Icelandic

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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Masculinity/Femininity of the Generations: As Self-Reported and as Stereotypically Appraised

The International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 1976
Three 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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Masculine Generic Terms and Misperception of AIDS Risk¹

Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 1988
Three studies were performed concerning generic references to homosexuality in the context of AIDS. Study One demonstrated that for two major newspapers and two major news magazines, the majority of references to high‐risk‐behavior groups for AIDS employ generic references to homosexuality rather than specifying male homosexuality.
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Gendering ‘Young Generation’ Discourses : Focusing on the Concept of Masculinity

Gender and Culture, 2015
이 글은 한국 청년 세대 담론이 가진 남성중심적 한계를 극복하고 오늘 /여기 청년기 인구집단이 가진 다층성과 이질성을 포착하기 위해, 남성성 연구의 성과를 활용하여 청년 세대 담론의 젠더화를 시도한다. 최근의 청년 세대 담론은 청년층을 몰젠더적인 남성인 것처럼 표상하고, 그들의 위기와 좌절을 젊은 남성들이 표준화된 근대적 남성 생애주기 과제를 달성하기 어려워진 것에서 찾는 경향이 있다. 그러나 한국사회에서 정상가족의 표준이나 근대적 성별분업은 상당부분 이미 해체, 변형되고 있으며, 따라서 청년 세대에 대한 담론이 여전히 이것을 전제로 하고 있는 것은 불합리하다.
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