Language and Gender

Catalog description

This course explores how language, gender, sexuality, power and identity are interwoven. Drawing on linguistic anthropology, critical sociolinguistics, feminist and queer theories, and ethnographic case studies, we’ll focus on topics such as gender identity, performativity and language use, ideologies of gender and language, sexual orientation, and processes of nationalism and globalization that are interwoven with gender and sexuality. The course will take an intersectional approach to all these topics, with a particular focus on intersectionality and Black feminism in week 11. The aim of this course is to think, reflect, and learn about ourselves as socio-historical and cultural beings permeated by linguistic interactions that reinforce and/or resist gender normativity.???