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<div>Yes, Kira's stuff is very helpful here. Relevant also is
the book (Oxford Univ Press, 2001) by Anna Livia,<i> Pronoun Envy:
Literary Uses of Linguistic Gender</i>. Though it focuses on
literature, it has a lot of useful and enlightening discussion that
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>You might check out Kira Hall's work, if
you haven't. I know this one<br>
talks about grammatical gender use:<br>
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Hall, Kira, & Veronica O'Donovan (1996). Shifting
Gender Positions Among<br>
Hindi-speaking Hijras. In Victoria Bergvall, Janet Bing, &
Alice Freed<br>
(eds.), Rethinking Language and Gender Research: Theory and
Practice.<br>
London: Longman. 228-266.<br>
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SFK<br>
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On Thu, 5 Feb 2004 at 10:40pm, the following was brought forth by
Rodrigo Borba:<br>
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> Hey, guys, does anyone have suggestions about literature on
the<br>
> manupulation the the grammatical gender system? I've been
involved with<br>
> a research among Travestis in southern Brazil and I discovered
that<br>
> their particular use of the grammatical system in Bazilian
Portuguese<br>
> might be really worth taking a look at.<br>
><br>
> Rodrigo<br>
> "Ousar È perder o equilÌbrio por um instante, mas n“o
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> Kiergaard<br>
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