Below you will find links to supplementary readings and materials.
Chapter 1
- Bing, Janet. Penguins can't fly and women don't count: Language and thought. Women and Language. Vol. 15 (Fall 1992), 2; pg. 11-14.
- Suzuki, Takao. Things and Words. In Takao Suzuki (Mura, Akira, trans.) Words in Context: A Japanese Perspective on Language and Culture. Tokyo: Kodansha International: 2001. Pp. 30-54.
Chapter 2
- Nestvold, Ruth. Looking Through Lace. Asimov’s Science Fiction, September 2003: 16-52. Pdf copy here or Go to Nestvold’s web site for readable freeware copy.
- Hardman, M.J. Metaphor Continued (PowerPoint 97-2003 Slide Show), March 29, 2006
- Metaphor Continued (saved as a .pdf)
- Gabrielle Giffords' Shooting Commentary
Keith Olbermann's Commentary (Violence & Threats Have No Place in Democracy, January 2011).
Jon Stewart's Commentary (January 2011)
The Colbert Report (January 2011)
Sarah Palin's Commentary (January 2011)
Chapter 3
- Hardman, M.J. "Gender through the levels." Women and Language. 16.n2 (Fall 1993): 42(8).
- Hardman, M. J. “The Sexist Circuits of English.” The Humanist. March/April 1996: 25-32.
- Kray, S. (1990). Never Cry Bull Moose: The Case of the Scheming Gene." Women and Language 13.1, (Spring 1990): 31-7.
- LeGuin, Ursula. K. “Introducing Myself.” In The Phoenix audiorecording by LodeStone Media, October 1995, reprinted in The Wave in the Mind, 2004, pp 3-7.
- Linfoot-Ham, K. Language & Violence, Unpublished paper, University of Florida, March 18, 2006
Chapter 4
- Hardman, M. J. “Data Source and Grammatical Person in the Jaqi Languages.” Diálogo Andino, a Journal of the Universidad de Tarapacá, Arica Chile. 1988-89 No. 7/8.
- Russ, J., "This is Your Life." from fanzine Khatru, ca. 1978.
- Taylor, Anita and Linda A. M. Perry. “Paradoxes: No Simple Matter.” Women and Language 24.2 (Fall 2001): 1-6.
Chapter 6
- Hardman, M.J. White Woman's Burden Free Mind, Sept-Oct 1989. 2-3.
Chapter 7
- Hardman, M.J. (1999, Spring). Why We Should Say "Women & Men" Until it Doesn't Matter Any More." Women and Language Journal, 22.1 (Spring 1999): 1-2.
Chapter 8
- Csonka, L., Gutierrez, C., Huang, C., Jimenez, M., Linfoot-Ham, K. The Gender-Based Hierarchy Principle in U.S. English Compounded by the Tyranny of ‘is’ PowerPoint SlideShow, University of Florida, 2007.
- Csonka, L., Gutierrez, C., Huang, C., Jimenez, M., Linfoot-Ham, K. “The Gender-Based Hierarchy Principle in U.S. English Compounded by the Tyranny of ‘is’.” PowerPoint SlideShow. (Saved as a .pdf)
Chapter 9
Sociologist Allan G. Johnson (PhD, University of Michigan) has been teaching and writing about privilege and social inequality for more than 30 years. The further readings list here includes some of his relevant books. Briefer expositions of his work can be seen at http://www.agjohnson.us/. Especially recommended are the essays “Who Me?”, “Our House is on Fire,” “It’s Different for Men,” and “Where White Privilege Came From.”
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