Check these links out for further information on this week's topics!

Use these links as quick references and contextualizing material as well as for ideas about forms of related activism and community work. To really delve, you need to print and read all essays, or go look at books and articles in Further Reading.

Remember that materials on the web MUST be evaluated as critically as any other texts we consider in this course. For brief guidelines on thinking critically about the web, click
HERE.

Theory

  • The Language and Gender Page:
    Professor Mary Bucholtz’s page at UC Santa Barbara offers comprehensive resources for the study of language and gender, with up-to-date sections dedicated to people in the field, organizations, publications, conferences, research and teaching materials, and online discussion lists.

  • Bibliography of Gender and Language:
    Part of Professor Harold S. Schiffman’s website at U Penn, the Bibliography of Gender and Language provides a sizable list of books and journal articles from a wide variety of sources.

  • Bibliography on LGBTQ Language:
    Compiled by Gregory Ward, professor of linguistics at Northwestern University, this bibliography provides resources for the study of language use by and about gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people
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Linguist List: "dog" as sexist language, as analyzed in Herring et al