gender-marked words in English

[Gerry Yokota-Murakami]

Ken--

Alleen Pace Nilsen published an article in The Gender Reader titled
Sexism in English: A 1990s Update, where she summarizes the results of
such a list --  actually several lists of an even broader range than
what you ask about in your query. She was apparently originally working
with index cards. For example, referring to eponyms, she says she had a
two and a half inch stack of cards taken from men's names but less than
a half inch stack from women's names. I don't know if she ever published
the list itself or a more extensive analysis of it thereafter (wouldn't
it be great to have it in digital form?), but it might be worth
following up on. I think she's at Arizona State. The article is also
reprinted in Experiencing Race, Class, and Gender in the United States.

Gerry Yokota-Murakami
Faculty of Language and Culture
Osaka University, Japan


Kenneth Allen Hyde wrote:

>Does anyone know of a citation for a comprehensive list of all the word
>pairs in English that show masc/fem. alternations (of the null/fem,
>masc/null, and masc/fem types)?  I can't seem to find a good list
>anywhere.
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>Ken
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