Undoing Gender
First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Gender's Place
... Gender Que Pica un Poco Ruth Behar Now , at the dawn of our new century , it's difficult to imagine a time when anthropologists didn't have the concept of gender . But it really wasn't all that long ago that we traveled around the world ...
The Encyclopedia Americana
... gender language . are Old Gender Forms . There linger in the English language many old forms reminiscent of its early history and its long transitional period . Some of these indicate grammatical gender in a fragmentary way . Some ...
Gender
Gender is used to assign certain responsibilities, obligations, and privileges to some, and to deny them to others. In Gender: A World History, Susan Kingsley Kent tells the story of this seemingly simple but in fact quite complex concept.
French Nouns and Their Genders ...
... gender and number . 9. - Gender generally denotes sex male or female . In grammar it designates the property possessed by substantives , of expressing the distinction of sexes by a difference in words , or in the termination of words ...
Principles of English Grammar for the Use of Schools
George Rice Carpenter. CHAPTER VI NOUNS : GENDER 34. SEX AND GENDER . - 35. WAYS OF DENOTING GENDER . 36. GENDER DENOTED BY INFLECTION . - 37. GENDER DENOTED BY COMPOSITION . - 38. GENDER DENOTED BY THE USE OF SEPA- RATE WORDS . - 39 ...
Gender, Sexuality, and Meaning
This volume offers a representative selection of Sally McConnell-Ginet's publications on language, gender and sexuality, which circle around the following themes: language users are actively engaged in making meanings, both as speakers and ...
Gender, Race, and Class in Media
-51 contemporary articles are new to this edition, with 14 classic pieces retained from prior editions.
Coming on Strong
Drawing on historical records and contemporary interviews, Cahn chronicles the remarkable transformation made by women's sports in the the 20th century, revealing the struggles faced by women to overcome social constraints and behavior ...
What Gender is Motherhood?
In this book, Oyěwùmí extends her path-breaking thesis that in Yorùbá society, construction of gender is a colonial development since the culture exhibited no gender divisions in its original form.
The New International Encyclopædia
... gender . original independence of natural gender is seen from the so - called epicene nouns , which have but one grammatical gender for both natural ones , as Latin lepus , hare ( masculine ) , vulpes , fox ( feminine ) , German Hase ...
French Syntax: on the Basis of Edouard Mätzner
... gender of , 58 . lingual , plural of , 63 . linot , feminine of , 61 . lion , gender of , 56 . lionne , gender of , 57 . lire , irregular verb , 110 . livre , double gender , 60 . Localities , names of , 312 . loi , gender of , 58 ...
English grammar series. [With] Key
... gender , singular number , nomina- tive case , subject to the verb " received . " Who - Relative pronoun , masculine gender , singular number , third person , agreeing with its antecedent " man , " nominative case , subject to the verb ...
Practical German Lessons for Beginners in High Schools and Colleges
... gender . 135 ositions . 120 , 143 , 355 fluctuation of gender . 245 with verbs . 85 foreign nouns , declension . 150 day , parts of . 136 ،، ،، gender . 407 days of week . 188 ،، " plural .. 173 , 337,392 declensional forms , old . .318 ...
A Manual of Comparative Philology as Applied to the Illustration of Greek and Latin Inflections
... gender already established . At any rate , in the common Indo - European period all or nearly all attributive words were inflected in three somewhat varying modes , to indicate generic distinctions ; and the names of things followed one ...
English for Use
... GENDER Gender is that quality or change of form of a noun or pro- noun which indicates distinctions of sex . Nouns have three genders - the masculine gender , indicating the male sex ; the feminine gender , indi- cating the female sex ...
A Short Latin Grammar
... Gender , Number , and Case . GENDER 65. There are three genders — Masculine , Feminine , and Neuter . 66. Natural and Grammatical Gender . - In Latin gender is either Natural , as dependent upon sex , or Grammatical , as dependent upon ...
The Journal of English and Germanic Philology
... gender nouns and the three of course have the same terminal article n or en ( §3 ) . Page 13. §4 . As plural terminal article -ne is used with mas- culine and common gender nouns of the second declension and nouns in are of the fifth ...
English Analysis and Exposition
... Gender is the distinction in the form of a noun or pronoun to indicate sex . The three genders are masculine ... gender , and denoting a thing which is neither mascu- line nor feminine is in the neuter gender . Thus , boy , bull ...
Report of the ... Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science
... gender ; the seeming gender of the other forms arising from their coalescence with this . I did not fully understand this in my study of the Sk qō'mic , where the pronominal and demonstrative gender is exactly the same as in the ...