Women's Studies 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Indefinite Pronoun, Jeff Lorber, Man Man
14 Jul 2016
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Feminism: a movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression. Patriarchy: institutionalized sexism; sexism at the individual, social, governmental level. Lorber, night to his day: the social construction of gender . No essential manhood, womanhood, femaleness, maleness, masculinity, or femininity. Laurel richardson, gender stereotyping in the english language . Everyone in our society, regardless of class, ethnicity, sex, age, or race, is exposed to the same language, the same language of the dominant culture. Death croaked, kick the bucket, passed away. Choose which is most appropriate given the context. 6 general propositions concerning attitudes and feelings about males and females in language: women do not have a fully autonomous, independent existence. Language is not divided into male and female, like french or spanish. Man as an indefinite pronoun refers to both men and women. Man is often seen to apply to both men and women. The word woman is derived from the original word wifeman .
