Redoing Linguistic Worlds: Unmaking Gender Binaries, Remaking Gender Pluralities Edited by Kris Aric Knisely and Eric Louis Russell
Language & gender are interconnected social & relational acts through which we constantly remake our worlds. But what happens when our ways of doing gender cannot be neatly categorized into traditional binary systems, including the social groupings of roles, practices, & identities & also the forms & structures through which we do language? This book explores the undoing & redoing of gender binaries in non-Anglophone communities & contexts, in & through their linguistic & social reimaginings. Each contribution reflects on this ongoing change & its place in our everyday lives, including the ways that its outcomes are both contested & fluid. This volume represents an important step in scholarship in language & gender, one that stands to inform a public increasingly aware of these remakings & one that calls on all of us to stand in the tensions of our own humanity & look through it for how our languaging might 'do' imaginary worlds that are more equitable, connected, & just for us all.
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Knisely, K. & Russell, E. (2024). Redoing linguistic worlds: Unmaking gender binaries, remaking gender pluralities. Multilingual Matters. www.multilingual-matters.com/page/detail/...
