Sexism in Russian language

[Elena Gapova]

There is a text by Alexander Pershai "Sexism v yazyke" (
http://gender.by/sexism.html ) , published in Minsk in the brochure
explaining geder issues for journalists. This is not a scholarly
publication, but may still be used as "cultural evidence."

The author taught a serious course on language and gender, including the
topics of "sexism", at the Master's Program in Gender Studies at European
Humaniites University in Minsk; he can be reached at pershais at yahoo.uk  He
also authored the paper "Colonizatsia naoborot: gendernaya lingvistika v
byvshem SSSR" , published in the gournal "Gendernye issledovania", #7-8,
2002 ( http://www.kcgs.org.ua/RUSSIAN/pub/78.html ) This paper, that is
widely quoted, argues that a lot of "gender linguistics" in the FSU is stuck
with the issues of identifying gender differences in speech, vocablulory,
intonation and never gets to the wider issue of  "can the subaltern speak?"
at all.

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> I'm doing a project on sexism in Russian language. Could anybody suggest
me
> any recent articles or books?

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