Significant further advances in the study of language and gender must involve unprecedented integration. Such integration can come only through the intensive collaboration of people working in a variety of fields and a variety of communities. Language and gender studies, in fact, require an interdisciplinary community of scholarly practice.
—Penelope Eckert and Sally McConnell-Ginet, Think Pactically and Look Locally (in Roman et al. 455)
Required Readings
- Baker, Sexed Texts, Ch. 9: Conclusion (251-264) [Moodle2]
- Crawford, Talking Difference, Preface (xi-xiii), Chs. 1 (1-21) & 6 (170-80) [Moodle2]
- Eckerd and McConnell-Ginet, “Think Practically, Look Locally” (432-460) [Moodle2]
- Hall and Bucholtz, Gender Articulated, “Introduction” (1-22) [Moodle2]
- Bucholtz, Liang, and Sutton, Reinventing Identities: The Gendered Self in Discourse Series Forward (vii-viii), “Bad Examples: Transgression and Progress in Language and Gender Studies” (3-24) [Moodle2] http://www.linguistics.ucsb.edu/faculty/bucholtz/sites/secure.lsit.ucsb.edu.ling.cms_bucholtz/files/docs/publications/Bucholtz1999-BucholtzLiangSutton.pdf
- Freed, Epilogue (699-721), in Holmes and Meyerhoff, Handbook of Language and Gender [Moodle2 and free e-textbook (link on course’s Moodle2 site)]
- Watson and Shaw, Performing American Masculinities: The 21st-Century Man in Popular Culture, Introduction “From Seinfeld To Obama: Millennial Masculinities In Contemporary American Culture” (1-5), Ch. 3 “The Might of the Metrosexual: How a Mere Marketing Tool Challenges Hegemonic Masculinity” (58-75), Ch. 9 “Do You Have What It Takes to Be a Real Man?”: Female-to-Male Transgender Embodiment and the the Politics of the “Real” in A Boy Named Sue and Body Alchemy(192-231) http://muse.jhu.edu.librarylink.uncc.edu/books/9780253000842
APPLYING THEORY: LANGUAGE, GENDER AND REPRESENTATION
Review: - Holmes and Meyerhoff, Handbook of Language and Gender
- Weedon, Feminist Practice and Poststructuralist Theory
- Reeser, Masculinities in Theory: An Introduction.
- Hill, The Everyday Language of White Racism
- Girshick, Transgender Voices: Beyond Women and Men
- Nagoshi et al., Gender and Sexual Identity: Transcending Feminist and Queer Theory
- Enke, Transfeminist Perspectives in and beyond Transgender and Gender Studies
Due This Week
Weekly journal entry including main points from readings and observations about language from daily life.
Reading Guidelines
Research paper due by noon, Dec. 8
Final exam question