Useful language, gender and sexuality resources

 

Thanks to IGALA members for their suggestions and contributions to this list! If you would like to suggest an addition to this page, please contact Scott Burnett with the details.

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Scholarly networks

 

•  Efigies Genre & Langage (a French site detailing opportunities for colleagues in France who are involved in scholarly research associated with language and gender, and feminist linguistics)

 

• Réseau Genre & Langage (a network for French scholars working in Language and Gender) 

 

• The North and Midlands Language and Gender Reading Group 

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• Lavender Languages and Linguistics (annual conference series on language and sexuality)

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• Gender and Sexuality Research Cluster at the National University of Singapore (also on Facebook)

 

 

Teaching resources

 

• Teaching Language and Gender. This article, by Jane Sunderland and Joan Swann, outlines possible content for language and gender courses and addresses issues which may arise in the classroom setting. 

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Research bibliographies

 

• Jane Sunderland, Ren-Feng Duann, Paul Baker and the Gender and Language Research Group's (2002) Gender and Genre Bibliography

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• Lal Zimman and Kira Hall's Oxford Online Bibliography of Language, Gender, and Sexuality

 

• Marjorie Chan’s Chinese Language and Gender Online Bibliography

 

• Heiko Motschenbacher's bibliography on Language, Gender, and Sexuality. Though this is not online, the book reference is: 

Motschenbacher, Heiko (2012): An Interdisciplinary Bibliography on Language, Gender and Sexuality (2000-2011). Amsterdam: John Benjamins. [ISBN: 978-90-272-1200-9]

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• Bibliography of Gender and Language in African Contexts

  • Connected: a special issue of Gender and Language in 2012 considered research in Sub-Saharan African Contexts

 

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IGALA Statements

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• IGALA Statement on misgendering

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• IGALA Statement on transphobia

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Blogs dealing with language and gender issues

...in addition to the IGALA blog, of course!

 

• Deborah Cameron: ‘Language, a Feminist Guide’

  

• Lal Zimman: ‘Trans Talk’

 

• Christiane Luck: ‘A Little Feminist Blog on Language’

 

 

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