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Non-Sexist Language Use

  • Ann Weatherall
    ,
  • Nancy A Naples
    ,
  • J Michael Ryan
    ,
  • Renée C Hoogland
    ,
  • Maithree Wickramsing
    ,
  • Wai Ching Angela Wong
Research Output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding Chapter Peer-review

Abstract

Non-sexist language use is about changing and raising awareness about the unequal ways language represents women and men. There is a lot of variability in the ways that gender is encoded across different languages. As a result the strategies to promote non-sexist language differ. Linguistic activists have employed a range of creative strategies to highlight gender issues. For example, feminists coined herstory to highlight male dominance in historical accounts and queer activists have promoted terms such as female bodied as a way of challenging a dominant assumption that gender identity matches biological sex.

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Output type

Research Output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding Chapter Peer-review

Original language

English

Pages from-to (Number of pages)

Pages 1-2 (2 pages)

Publication milestones

  • Published - 21/04/2016

Publication status

Published - 21/04/2016

Publisher

John Wiley & Sons Inc., Japan, Australia, United States, Canada, China, United Kingdom, Denmark

ISBN (Print)

9781405196949

ISBN (Electronic)

9781118663219

External Publication IDs

  • handle.net: 10547/626245
  • Scopus: 105026026163

Host publication title

The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Gender and Sexuality Studies

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