Language and sexism reading list

Happy Friday! To whet your appetites for our Strike School next week, and to keep you busy over the weekend, we are happy to present our first reading list, on language and sexism. Below you'll find a few papers, books and links from fields represented in Chandler House to get you thinking about some topics you wouldn't normally hear about in class. Take a look, and then come discuss with striking staff on the picket lines or at our Strike School!

We hope to release a number of themed reading lists throughout the strike. If you have an idea for a reading list, send it along to our email.

• Chao, Monika, and Julia Bursten. "Heard but misunderstood: Understanding negative reactions to female vocal fry." m.s. (2016). 
• Hancock, Adrienne B., Holly Wilder Stutts, and Annie Bass. “Perceptions of Gender and Femininity Based on Language: Implications for Transgender Communication Therapy.” Language and Speech 58, no. 3 (2015): 315–33. doi:10.1177/0023830914549084. 
• Kahn, Lynda G. "Sexism in Everyday Speech." Social Work 20, no. 1 (1975): 65-67. www.jstor.org/stable/23711988. 
• Litosseliti, Lia and Claire Leadbeater. "Speech and language therapy/pathology: Perspectives on a gendered profession." International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders 48 (2013): 90-101. doi:10.1111/j.1460-6984.2012.00188.x
• Macaulay, Monica, and Colleen Brice. "Don't touch my projectile: Gender bias and stereotyping in syntactic examples." Language 73, no. 4 (1997): 798-825. doi:10.2307/417327. 
• Oman-Reagan, Michael. "Sexism in the Oxford Dictionary of English." medium.com (2016). 
• Slater, Anne & Saul Feinman. "Gender and the phonology of North American first names." Sex Roles 13, no. 7-8 (1985): 429-440. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00287953

You might also be interested in a This American Life segment on vocal fry.