ANTH 231 - Language and Gender

2023-2024 Catalog Year

Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 3
Non-Lecture: 0

This course introduces students to the sociolinguistic field of language and gender research. The view of gender adopted in the course is an intersectional one that attends to processes of power and oppression. The course explores how language varieties and linguistic choices reflect, reproduce, and reshape gender norms in diverse communities of practice. Course topics include: how people use language as a means for performing gender, (2) how language practices come to be associated with one gendered identity or another, and (3) how gender norms are reproduced, negotiated, and changed in part via language practices and discourses. The course will utilize feminist pedagogy to foster a climate of mutual inquiry and exchange of ideas between faculty and students.

Prerequisite(s): ANTH 120 or permission of the instructor.
Offered: Every Fall Semester