For my second lab, I decided to search through JSTOR it was difficult at first to find specifically for trans/cis people,but I found one called Some Very Basic Tips for Making Higher Education More Accessible to Trans Students and Rethinking How We Talk about Gendered Bodies By Dean Spade. Spade is great for my project about pronoun identity because she addresses how important pronouns are when addressing a transgender people. And how to better a situation if we use the wrong proper nouns. Another article I found is called On the grammaticalization of personal pronouns by Bernd Heine and Kyung-an Song. This article will help my group write our essay because pronouns usage have evolved over generations. I also another article that focus on grammar
Reading Chapter 11, “Genders and Sexualities,” written by Carrie Hintz was to construct and enact alternatives for these two traditional categories. Data is clearly indicated that sexual material is some of the most controversial content in literature. Children’s literature that is involved with adolescent’s childhood are key battlegrounds for attitudes about gender and sexuality. The significance of gender and sexuality in children’s literature is the persistent investment in what is perceived to be the innocence of children. Innocence is defined in part by children’s enforced ignorance of sexual matters. According to James Kincaid, “Youth and innocence are two of the most eroticized constructions of the past two centuries. Innocence was that
In How Sex Changed by Joanne Meyerowitz, the author tell us about the medical, social and cultural history of transsexuality in the United States. The author explores different stories about people who had a deep desired to change or transform their body sex. Meyerowitz gives a chronological expiation of the public opinion and how transsexuality grew more accepted. She also explained the relationship between sex, gender, sexuality and the law. In there the author also address the importance of the creation of new identities as well as how medication constrain how we think of our self. The author also explain how technological progress dissolve the idea of gender as well as how the study of genetics and eugenics impacts in the ideas about gender/sexuality and identity. But more importantly how technology has change the idea of biological sex as unchangeable.
...d of struggles does a Chicana face when they pursue a college degree. I want to learn how a Chicana lesbian challenge culture and what type of barriers, inequalities and struggles do the Chicana lesbians face. I want to research the social problems that women face when they don’t challenge gender roles. For example is Domestic Violence a culture problems cause by gender roles among the population because women are being taught to be submissive to men. My interest it’s in understanding how some of these challenges, barriers, oppressions, and inequalities play in to role when a Chicana tries to pursue a college degree and make a career for her self in the Unites States.
Gender Matters is a collection of various essays on feminist linguistic texts analysis, by Sara Mills. Mills develops methods of analyzing literary and non-literary texts, in addition to conversational analysis based on a feminist approach. The author draws on data from her collection of essays gathered over the last two decades on feminism during the 1990s. The essays focus on gender issues, the representation of gender in reading, writing, and in public speaking. Furthermore, it highlights the importance of feminists’ analysis of sexism in literature and the relation between gender and politeness. The article is informative for my research paper, as my topic is going to cover language analysis of the text and who women reading and writing differs according to the discourse analysis within linguistic, psychology, case studies audiences and surveys. The book would be helpful, particularly the last three essays that discusses gender, public speaking, the question of politeness and impoliteness in public speaking. Mills’ analysis is not complete without including the idea of global notions of both women and men, to see whether women and men write and read in the same way globally. Therefore, an update would enrich the book’s discussion section. Although, Mills addresses the class and race theme in language and public speaking, I will only look into the role of language that plays a part in doing or reducing gender in literary, non-literary texts and in conversation.
In his article, Thompson exposes Koppel’s evidence that women use more personal pronouns when writing than men. A group of Koppel’s computer scientists analyzed the writings of men and women by comparing them with their invented algorithm. The team found that women tend to utilize a greater number of personal pronouns than men. Often times men write about objects rather than people while women enjoy writing about people and expressing their emotions. (365). Personal pronouns such as “he”, “she”, “you”, and “they” produce personal and emotional meanings, and because women express their emotions more frequently than men, women gravitate toward the use of personal pronouns in their writing. By adding factual evidence into the article, the author places the focus of his writing on the usage of personal pronouns in women’s writing. Similar to Thompson, McWroter’s explains how the usage of pronouns should completely be gender neutral in literature (373-379). The entire article concentrates on the personal pronouns “they” and “he/she”. At first, McWhroter discusses the use of “they” as a singular pronoun although grammar experts consider it to be a plural pronoun. According to McWhroter, “they” creates a more gender neutral style in writing than “he/she”
The information acquired over the semester, whether through text or visual media, vividly brought the importance of knowing how one’s gender is identified and developed.
Feminism is a word that is stock-full of implications, and has many misconceptions. Full Frontal Feminism by Jessica Valenti attempts to give a broad overview of what feminism is, and how you should feel about it (hint: it’s positively). The book is directed primarily towards the younger generation, and talks about a variety of issues relevant to the feminist movement today and in history. The weaknesses of the book include the casual writing, the assumptions Valenti makes, and the contradictory statements that are consistently made. The strengths include providing an entertaining, broad overview of feminism, and discussing ways to contribute to gender equality. Overall, the book is more likely to be a positive experience for high-schoolers that identify as women then college-aged individuals looking for a critical analysis of issues society faces in regards to gender inequality.
In “ The Appeal of an Androgynous Man” an article written by Amy Gross, she compares the characteristics of the masculine brute, to the humble androgynous man. An androgynous man is a man who possesses qualities of both genders. For example, an androgynous man would still have manly traits, but would also be more feminine than other males. In her essay, Gross claims that the androgynous man possesses closely similar traits, in comparison to herself. Gross finds it more difficult to communicate with masculine men than androgynous men, simply for the reason that androgynous men are more sensitive and compassionate.
Imagine going through life believing that you were born into the wrong body. This is how a transgender feels as they go through life. A transgender is a person who whose self-identity does not conform unambiguously to male or female sex. This topic is very controversial due to many arguments about the differences between the male and female physique. The natural biological differences between males and a females play a huge role in this controversy. These difference become serious issues when athletes want to compete for their non-biological sex. Michelle Castillo, a freelance writer and editor, believes that once a transgender athlete completes at least one year of hormone therapy, then the athletes should be eligible to compete with the sex of their choice.
With this week’s readings, many interesting articles were discussed but the one that struck me the most would be Christine Delphy’s article, “Rethinking sex and gender.” This specific article brought about points and perspectives that I had never experienced before prior to the reading. What was even more shocking, however, was when I discovered that some of the fallacies that Delphy had mentioned in the article were already ingrained in myself. For example, within Delphy’s first examination she points out that there is a hidden assumption that sex precedes gender since it is a biologically derived characteristic and this was an assumption that I found to make myself. Even though I thought that this article would just be another simple read for me, it turned out that it was quite the enlightening experience as it provided insight into how gender roles and classification developed as well as providing a lot of interesting arguments. However, what I connected with most would be the later part of the article that specifically focuses on the topics of hierarchy and division.
The book Delusions of Gender was written by Cordelia Fine in August of 2010. She was born in 1975 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Throughout the years, she has attended Oxford, Cambridge and University College London to get her degrees in experimental psychology, criminology, and her PhD. Due to the fact that she is writing a book about the differences in how each of the sexes think, she has a bias because she is a female and she doesn’t have true insight on what a male has on their point of view.
Gendered spaces are socially constructed locations commonly defined by their utility to service a particular gender. They are founded by historic common and continual performative usage upon which specific designs are built and a collective understanding and expectation is attached and is shared. Just as these identifying markers have come to legally and socially define a space as gendered, through signifying dynamics (i.e. - unfettered access, physical interaction with its utilities) the spaces themselves reciprocally identify their users as a particular gender. Consequently, the societal expectation in the United States is that only women (a.k.a. owners of biologically determined female bodies) will enter and use a Women’s Room, while
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Being a woman is defined in opposition to a man. So being a woman becomes living up to other people’s expectations. This mean they have to have successful careers, be married, be mothers, and be involved in their communities. Some people say that gender is being male or female. Gender should not be defined or determine who you are because it should not be determined by your biological gender, how one presents themselves and their behavior, and their internal sense of self male, female, both or neither. Rather it should be determined by the person themselves. Your gender should not be based on how people perceive it but it should be how you see yourself.
This study aimed to investigate how the speaker employs personal pronouns (we, you, I) in scholastic discourse with special attention to the utilization of "you" through the analysis of the Michigan Corpus of Scholastic Communicated in English (MICASE). The result of the study was that there was only one common pronoun used which is “you”. One is a hypothetical form “if you were/are” in college students’ speeches, which demonstrates that the speaker intends to engage the audience in the talk, rather than using impersonal forms or third person. The use of third person point of view will not make it ambiguous. “You” requires a specific person for addressing to a certain person making it personal and less formal. Because of this, “you” should be avoided in academic writing. In addition, the reason why “you” is frequently used because the pronoun “you” collocates with verb such as “you get”, “You think” “you have” and etc. This stud y about personal pronoun has bearing on the present study since both deals with pronouns. The study supports the present study since both are about academic. In addition, the findings of the study will justify that using the pronoun ‘you’ will not achieve the sense of objectivity in academic writing.