Resources

Blogs/Articles

language: a feminist guide (Professor Deborah Cameron): https://debuk.wordpress.com/

#Stop Sexism:

Deutsch: https://www.coe.int/de/web/human-rights-channel/stop-sexism

français: https://www.coe.int/fr/web/human-rights-channel/stop-sexism

English: https://www.coe.int/en/web/human-rights-channel/stop-sexism

Sexismus in der Sprache: Zu viel wird unreflektiert weitergegeben

https://www.bildderfrau.de/familie-leben/article231715985/Sexismus-in-der-Sprache.html

Sexistische Sprache und wie sie zu verhindern ist

https://www.futurdrei.net/blog/sexismus-sprache-bestimmt-unser-handeln/

Sexistische Sprache: Was wir wirklich sagen

https://www.brigitte.de/aktuell/gesellschaft/gleichberechtigung–sexistische-sprache–was-wir-wirklich-sagen-10229400.html

Emfpehlungen zu geschlechtergerechtem Sprachgebrauch der Universität Bern:

https://www.gendercampus.ch/public/user_upload/GendergerechteSprache_Auflage2.pdf

Geschlechtersensible Sprach (Universität Fribourg):

https://www.unifr.ch/uni/de/organisation/acad/gleichstellung/geschlechtersensible-sprache.html

Wie gewaltvoll kann Sprache sein (Gendercampus):

https://www.gendercampus.ch/de/blog/post/wie-gewaltvoll-kann-sprache-sein

Le premier ministre, l’Académie et la langue française

https://theconversation.com/le-premier-ministre-lacademie-et-la-langue-francaise-88110

Le langage enfin vu sous l’angle des violences sexistes

https://france.attac.org/nos-publications/les-possibles/numero-16-printemps-2018/dossier-le-s-feminisme-s-aujourd-hui/article/le-langage-enfin-vu-sous-l-angle-des-violences-sexistes

Écriture inclusive : un premier bilan de la controverse

https://theconversation.com/ecriture-inclusive-un-premier-bilan-de-la-controverse-147630

La ministre McCann et le piège de la « douceur » des femmes en politique

https://theconversation.com/la-ministre-mccann-et-le-piege-de-la-douceur-des-femmes-en-politique-156528

Women ask fewer questions in academic seminars:
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/women-much-less-likely-to-ask-questions-in-academic-seminars-than-men

Cruelty and hate in the trans debate on both sides is terrifying (online article)
https://www.pressreader.com/uk/evening-standard-west-end-final/20210616/281728387469768

Academic Resources

Baffy, Marta (2020). ‘Doing ‘being interrupted’ in political talk:

https://cpb-us-w2.wpmucdn.com/blog.nus.edu.sg/dist/d/3920/files/2020/10/10.1017S0047404520000299.pdf

Carter, Alecia et al. (2018). Women’s visibility in academic seminars: Women ask fewer questions than men:

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0202743

Holmes, Janet (1992). Women’s Talk in Public Contexts:

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0957926592003002001

Horvath, Lisa and Sabine Sczesny (2016): Reducing women’s lack of fit with leadership positions? Effects of the wording of job advertisements:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/279515531_Reducing_Women%27s_Lack_of_Fit_with_Leadership_Effects_of_the_Wording_of_Job_Advertisements

Horvath, Lisa, Elisa Merkel, Anne Maass und Sabine Sczesny (2016). Does Gender-Fair Language PayOff? The Social Perception of Professions from a Cross-Linguistic Perspective:

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.02018/full

Jacobi, Tonja und Dylan Schweers (2015). Justice, interrupted: the effect of gender, ideology, and seniority at supreme court oral arguments:

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2933016

Nübling, Damaris (2011): Von der ‚Jungfrau‘ zur ‚Magd‘, vom ‚Mädchen‘ zur ‚Prostituierten‘: Die Pejorisierung der Frauenbezeichnungen als Zerrspiegel der Kultur und als Effekt männlicher Galanterie?

http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/year/2015/docId/38276

Sczesny, Sabine, Magda Formanowicz and Franziska Moser (2016): Can Gender-Fair Language Reduce Gender Stereotyping and Discrimination?

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00025/full

Zimmermann, Don, und Candace West (1975). Sex roles, interruptions and silences in conversation:

https://web.stanford.edu/~eckert/PDF/zimmermanwest1975.pdf

GLAD! Revue sur le langage, le genre et les sexualités

https://journals.openedition.org/glad/

Le cerveau pense-t-il au masculin ? 

https://www.lerobert.com/autour-des-mots/francais/le-cerveau-pense-t-il-au-masculin-9782321016892.html

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