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Challenging the Gender Binary in Modern Languages (Cheyenne, Wyoming, USA)

Challenging the Gender Binary in Modern Languages (Cheyenne, Wyoming, USA)

Publié le par Marc Escola (Source : Marla Arbach)

CFP: Challenging the Gender Binary in Modern Languages

Rocky Mountain MLA, Oct 4-6, 2018, Cheyenne, Wyoming, USA

In contemporary society, we are coming to realize that the binary conception of gender that we once took for granted does not adequately account for non-binary expressions of gender, which have long existed but are now gaining visibility.  This panel will explore the ways the gender binary and, in particular, binary-gendered language, are being challenged in literary, linguistic, and rhetorical scholarship as well as in the classroom.

We are seeking proposals that address the issues of gender identity within language itself. We want to consider how transformations within language have addressed these issues in formal and informal contexts.

Ideas for presentations include (but are not limited to) the following:

  • Use of gender-neutral pronouns or honorifics as a way of challenging the gender binary

  • Literary and/or rhetorical representations of non-binary gender usage

  • Transformation of gendered languages to accommodate non-binary identities

  • Use of non-binary terms in languages varieties and their potential influence on the dominant language

  • Historical concepts or transformations of non-binary gender in indigenous languages

  • Use of non-binary gender in the classroom

  • Use of non-binary gender identities in government (and other official) communications

  • Informal use of gender-neutral terms in communication

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Send your title and a 250-word abstract of your proposed 15-minute presentation to the session co-chairs:  Lauren M. Connolly, Lewis-Clark State College (lmconnolly@lcsc.edu) and Marla Arbach, Carleton University (marla.arbach@gmail.com) by April 1, 2018.

 

The language of this panel is English.


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