I highly recommend the post from Kameron Hurley, "'We Have Always Fought': Challenging the 'Women, Cattle and Slaves' Narrative" on her web site. It's not a particularly cohesive essay, but it illuminates and personalizes the gender assumptions we make in vocabulary and historical reference.
Becoming aware of gendered history
I highly recommend the post from Kameron Hurley, "'We Have Always Fought': Challenging the 'Women, Cattle and Slaves' Narrative" on her web site. It's not a particularly cohesive essay, but it illuminates and personalizes the gender assumptions we make in vocabulary and historical reference.
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I learned a new phrase today: The Oracle of Approximate Knowledge
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Movies: The 13th Warrior and language barriers portrayed
I saw this movie when it came out. I really love Banderas. We bought the movie, but I only re-watched it a time or two. Now comes Tor's electronic…
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The evolution of communication: Please, thank you, and ... right-o?
ETA: Apparently this has been bugging me for a while: http://reedrover.livejournal.com/447328.html
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