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{"title":"Love, Sex, Gender, and Superheroes Jeffery Brown (2022)","authors":"Frazer Heritage","doi":"10.1558/genl.23323","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/genl.23323","url":null,"abstract":"Love, Sex, Gender, and Superheroes Jeffery Brown (2022) New York: Rutgers University Press, 244 pp.","PeriodicalId":44706,"journal":{"name":"Gender and Language","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2022-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49374278","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Navigating homophobia and reinventing the self","authors":"P. Onanuga","doi":"10.1558/genl.18778","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/genl.18778","url":null,"abstract":"Discriminatory practices against the Nigerian gay community take the form of state and non-state sponsored opposition, censorship and violence. This study investigates how gay Nigerians combat homophobia by using language agentively on social media as a semiotic resource towards self-assertion and identity construction. Data retrieved from Twitter via keyword searches suggest that in addition to harnessing agency through positive self-representation and ingroup affirmation, the digital discourses of Nigerian gay men recontextualise religion as a legitimising tool, transforming it into a site of affirmative struggle. These resources reach a crescendo in the practice known as ‘kito-ing’, a discourse strategy that protects the gay community from threats by publicly ‘outing’ homophobic actors, thus contesting the prevailing gender hierarchy. While Nigerian physical space restricts queer livability, the digital space becomes a locus for agency whereby various semiotic resources are used to refuse the status quo and assert nonnormative sexualities against an otherwise oppressive social order.","PeriodicalId":44706,"journal":{"name":"Gender and Language","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2022-05-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48738438","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"De-gendering Gendered Occupations: Analysing Professional Discourse Joanne McDowell","authors":"Shuai Liu","doi":"10.1558/genl.22458","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/genl.22458","url":null,"abstract":"De-gendering Gendered Occupations: Analysing Professional Discourse Joanne McDowell (2021) New York: Routledge, 230 pp.","PeriodicalId":44706,"journal":{"name":"Gender and Language","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2022-05-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47808066","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Critical reflections on ethnographic data collection in the highly gendered environment of male football","authors":"Solvejg Wolfers-Pommerenke","doi":"10.1558/genl.19715","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/genl.19715","url":null,"abstract":"This article critically reflects on the methodological implications of indexing gender and sexuality by research participants when conducting ethnographic fieldwork in explicitly gendered contexts, particularly where notions of hegemonic masculinity are prevalent. Research suggests a number of potential challenges for female researchers, such as being patronised and subjected to sexist attitudes, among others. In order to gain a greater understanding of these methodological challenges, this study draws on over 60 hours of audio-recorded and observed interactions among male professional and elite football (‘soccer’ in US English) players and coaches before, during and after football matches and trainings. The main focus is the kinds of gendered and sexualised identities participants regularly assign to the female researcher in discursive interaction. This shows that, in ethnographic research projects, the construction of gender and sexual identities is potentially always relevant to data collection and research outcome.\u0000In diesem Artikel werden die methodischen Implikationen der Indizierung von Gender und Sexualität durch Forschungsteilnehmer in ethnografischer Feldforschung in explizit gegenderten Kontexten, wo Vorstellungen von hegemonialer Männlichkeit vorherrschen, kritisch reflektiert. Die Forschung deutet diesbezüglich auf eine Reihe potenzieller Herausforderungen für weibliche Forscherinnen hin, unter anderem, Bevormundung und sexistischer Umgang. Um diese methodischen Herausforderungen besser zu verstehen, stützt sich diese Studie auf über 60 Stunden Audioaufzeichnungen und Beobachtungen von Interaktionen zwischen männlichen Profi- und Elite-Fußballspielern und Trainern vor, während und nach Fußballspielen und Trainingseinheiten. Es geht in der Studie vor allem darum, welche Art von gegenderten und sexualisierten Identitäten die männlichen Teilnehmer der weiblichen Forscherin regelmäßig in diskursiven Interaktionen zuordnen. Dies zeigt, dass in ethnografischen Forschungsprojekten die Konstruktion gegenderter und sexualisierter Identitäten potenziell immer relevant für die Datenerhebung und das Forschungsergebnis ist. ","PeriodicalId":44706,"journal":{"name":"Gender and Language","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2022-05-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46823703","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Transmedicalism and ‘trans enough’","authors":"Lex Konnelly","doi":"10.1558/genl.20230","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/genl.20230","url":null,"abstract":"While gender dysphoria is a real and acute distress for many transgender people, it is not universal, and it is experienced and oriented to in a myriad of ways. However, its status as a prerequisite for gender-affirming care can lead trans people to feel compelled to amplify its salience in pursuit of medical support. Through a critical discourse analysis of nonbinary healthcare narratives, this article traces the relationship between linguistic practices in these care interactions and the gender and sexual logics of the transmedicalist model of trans-gender care. Individuals’ descriptions of dysphoria in the consultation room are not straightforward accounts of assimilation to transmedicalist expectations. Rather, when read from a trans linguistic perspective attentive to the biopolitics of transgender healthcare, these become strategies for nonbinary patients to enact their own interventions on a process over which (it may seem) they have minimal control, presenting a critical thirding (as described by Eve Tuck 2009) of a dichotomous view of either transnormativity or resistance.","PeriodicalId":44706,"journal":{"name":"Gender and Language","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2022-05-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44111321","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Virtual Activism: Sexuality, the Internet, and a Social Movement in Singapore Robert Phillips","authors":"Christian Go","doi":"10.1558/genl.22459","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/genl.22459","url":null,"abstract":"Virtual Activism: Sexuality, the Internet, and a Social Movement in Singapore Robert Phillips (2020) University of Toronto Press, 180 pp.","PeriodicalId":44706,"journal":{"name":"Gender and Language","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2022-05-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45348546","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Politics, pronouns and the players","authors":"Frazer Heritage","doi":"10.1558/genl.20250","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/genl.20250","url":null,"abstract":"Despite being released in 2004, the online videogame World of Warcraft (WoW) introduced its first transgender character only in 2020. This article examines how players responded to this new character, named Pelagos, analysing how many players were for/against the inclusion of Pelagos, how these views were constructed and how players interact with each other. Data from official WoW fora demonstrate a surprising backlash against transphobia and overwhelming support for the inclusion of a transgender character. Those who were against the inclusion of Pelagos framed their arguments in terms of objections to political correctness, arguing that gaming should remain politically neutral. By contrast, those in favour of including Pelagos argued that videogames are political by nature. Further, examination of pronouns revealed that Pelagos is very rarely misgendered. Such a positive response has implications for research into Critical Discourse Studies and for videogame companies.","PeriodicalId":44706,"journal":{"name":"Gender and Language","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2022-05-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42008338","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Language and gender in North Africa","authors":"Fatima Sadiqi","doi":"10.1558/genl.21526","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/genl.21526","url":null,"abstract":"This essay investigates and contextualises the emergence and evolution of the discipline of ‘Language and Gender’ in North Africa in an attempt to remedy the underrepresentation of this region in scholarship. I ground this essay in my experiences with Language and Gender in Morocco and the International Gender and Language Association (IGALA), both of which were central in shaping my academic journey. The pre- and post-Uprisings periods surrounding what is often discussed as the ‘Arab Spring’ in the early 2010s carried serious consequences for the emergence of Language and Gender as a discipline. These moments and my involvement in them were deeply impacted by specific historical, sociopolitical and intellectual dimensions, most saliently the women’s movement and the discipline of linguistics. My essay draws on these experiences to advocate for the importance of decolonising the international language and gender canon with North African perspectives that move beyond English and the Global North.","PeriodicalId":44706,"journal":{"name":"Gender and Language","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2021-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48751275","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Intersections of class, race and place","authors":"Pia Pichler","doi":"10.1558/genl.21524","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/genl.21524","url":null,"abstract":"This essay presents an analysis of place references in the spontaneous talk of young Londoners from a range of socioeconomic and ethnic backgrounds. These place references function as ‘cultural concepts’ (Silverstein 2004) which index multilayered meanings well beyond their denotations, constituting important resources for speakers’ local and supralocal positionings. The essay argues that ‘place’ is an important filter for our experience of language, gender and sexuality and provides scholars with a valuable point of departure for explorations of intersectional identities.","PeriodicalId":44706,"journal":{"name":"Gender and Language","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2021-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45003336","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Untranslatable wounds","authors":"Maria Viteri","doi":"10.1558/genl.21521","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/genl.21521","url":null,"abstract":"A good starting point for revisiting the intersections of language, gender and sexuality is to acknowledge and understand how colonial wounds and legacies play out in our everyday lives. This essay critically addresses the multiple ways in which we are all marked in one way or another by our colonial relations and their intersections. A careful unpacking of mechanisms and linkages is critical for identifying strategies and tactics of struggle that might lead to more equitable present-days characterised by esperanza (hope). Yet a desire to decolonise language and language practices without recognising the lived experience of our own messy and colonial entanglements will never be enough to resignify the systems that hold racial, ethnic, gender, sexual and linguistic inequalities in place. This essay highlights the acts of desbordar (undoing/overflowing), trasto-car (queering) and resentir (feeling again) as alternative strategies that can be used to fracture the architectures of colonialism, starting with our own.","PeriodicalId":44706,"journal":{"name":"Gender and Language","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2021-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48318733","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}