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Pronoun envy : literary uses of linguistic gender /

Controversy over gendered pronouns, for example using the generic "he," has been a staple of feminist arguments about patriarchal language over the last 30 years, and is certainly the most contested political issue in Western feminist linguistics. Most accounts do not extend beyond policy...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Livia, Anna
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.
Colección:Studies in language and gender.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. "Un homme sur deux est une femme" : Introduction: Pronoun envy and phallogocentrism
  • 2. "Sexes mêlés je ne sus plus rien distinguer" : nongendered characters in French
  • 3. "Was I, perhaps, castrato/a?" : nongendered characters in English
  • 4. "La sphyngesse, la taure, et les agnelles nouvelles-nées" : experiments with lexical gender in French
  • 5. "On est quatre dans le même tas" : French epicene on
  • 6. "Na sat astride Three, na hands on nan throat" : epicene neologisms in English
  • 7. "Avant j'étais un transscxuel, maintenant j'étais une femme" : linguistic gender and liminal identity
  • 8. "Pendue pour des inventions illicites" : implications.