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Gender Articulated: Language and the Socially Constructed Self
Gender Articulated Language and the Socially Constructed Self Author:Kira Hall, Mary Bucholtz Gender Articulated is a groundbreaking work of sociolinguistics that forges new connections between language-related fields and feminist theory. Refuting apolitical, essentialist perspectives on language and gender, the essays presented here examine a range of cultures, languages and settings. They explicitly connect feminist theory to language ... more »research.Some of the most distinguished scholars working in the field of language and gender today discuss such topics as Japanese women's appropriation of "men's language," the literary representation of lesbian discourse, the silencing of women on the Internet, cultural mediation and Spanish use at New Mexican weddings and the uses of silence in the Anita Hill-Clarence Thomas hearings.« less
Nicholas S. (ngsfo) reviewed Gender Articulated: Language and the Socially Constructed Self on
As a linguist and as a gay man, I was insulted by this collection of essays which while claiming as its subject the totality of socially constructed gender as it is reflected in language did not contain a single essay not written by a woman.