English Language - Gender

Androcentric

Focused or centered on men

Feminism

Movement of equality between genders; dismantling gender stereotypes

Intersectionality

The idea that multiple aspects of a person's identity affect their lived experiences

Sex

Biological anatomy

Gender

Social concepts of that identity

Otto Jespersen, 1922 Language Book, Chapter 13 “The Woman”

-Women talk a lot

-Women use half-finished sentences because they speak before they think about what they will say

-Women join sentences with ‘and’ (emotionally rather than ‘grammatical’)

-Women use adjectives such as ‘pretty’ and ‘nice’

-Women use adverbs too much and tend towards hyperbole

-Women have a smaller vocabulary than men. The words they use are the ‘induspensable small change of a language’

-Women don’t swear

-Men are reasonable for introducing new words into a language