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Redoing Linguistic Worlds

Unmaking Gender Binaries, Remaking Gender Pluralities

Kris Aric Knisely Eric Louis Russell

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Multilingual Matters
16 January 2024
Language and gender are interconnected, social and relational acts through which we constantly remake our worlds. But what happens when our ways of doing gender cannot be neatly categorized into traditional binary systems, including not only the social groupings of roles, practices and identities, but also the forms and structures through which we do language? This book brings together a broad range of scholars to explore the undoing and redoing of gender binaries in non-Anglophone communities and contexts, in and through their linguistic and social reimaginings. Each of the contributions to this book reflects on this ongoing change and its place in our everyday lives, including the ways that its outcomes are both contested and fluid. This volume represents an important step in scholarship in language and gender, one that stands to inform a public increasingly aware of these remakings and one that calls on all of us to stand in the tensions of our own humanity and look through it for how our languaging might 'do' imaginary worlds that are more equitable, more connected, and more just for us all.

Edited by:   ,
Imprint:   Multilingual Matters
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 210mm,  Width: 148mm,  Spine: 14mm
Weight:   340g
ISBN:   9781800415089
ISBN 10:   1800415087
Series:   Critical Language and Literacy Studies
Pages:   288
Publication Date:  
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Further / Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Kris Aric Knisely is Assistant Professor of French and Intercultural Competence in the Department of French and Italian and affiliated faculty in the Second Language Acquisition and Teaching PhD program as well as in the Trans Studies Research Cluster at the University of Arizona. Knisely’s research focuses on gender justice in language education and research.    Eric Louis Russell is Professor of French and Italian and affiliated faculty in both the Linguistics and Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies departments at the University of California, Davis. His research considers contemporary Italian, French, Dutch and English linguacultures, asking how gender and gender expression, masculinities, power, authority and hegemonies are realized and disrupted through languaging and discursive activity.

Reviews for Redoing Linguistic Worlds: Unmaking Gender Binaries, Remaking Gender Pluralities

At a time when far-right politicians and TERF scholars are fundamentally threatening trans and non-binary people’s right to exist, this highly innovative edited collection offers an indispensable scholarly and political intervention illustrating the creative ways in which the gender binary is contested and reimagined. A must read! * Tommaso M. Milani, Pennsylvania State University, USA * Knisely and Russell have produced a timely collection, bringing to the fore speakers’ unmaking of limited and binary structures in language, and the remaking of inclusive interactions with the self and others. This volume is an exciting journey beyond the cis-only world, gifting the field with new and much-needed terminology, concepts and experiences. * Federica Formato, University of Brighton, UK * This book highlights the exclusionary reality that many trans and gender non-conforming people face when learning and using languages with grammatical gender. Addressing contexts both within and outside the classroom, the authors offer innovative and methodologically diverse approaches that effectively challenge the ongoing dominance of English in conversations about trans language. * Lal Zimman, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA *


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