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:
Kris Aric Knisely,
Eric Louis Russell
Imprint: Multilingual Matters
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 210mm,
Width: 148mm,
Spine: 18mm
Weight: 490g
ISBN: 9781800415096
ISBN 10: 1800415095
Series: Critical Language and Literacy Studies
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 16 January 2024
Audience:
College/higher education
,
Professional and scholarly
,
Further / Higher Education
,
Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Figures Tables Contributors Acknowledgments Series Editors' Preface Kris Aric Knisely and Eric Louis Russell: Introduction: Redoing Linguistic Worlds Part 1: Languagers and Genderers Chapter 1. Kris Aric Knisely and Eric Louis Russell: Languagers and Genderers: A Guide to Redoing Linguistic Worlds Part 2: Unmaking Gender Binaries and Remaking Gender Pluralities in the Classroom Chapter 2. Kris Aric Knisely: Not Another Binary: Gender Modality, Languaging and Language Learning in French Chapter 3. Maureen O. Gallagher (she), Simone Pfleger (they), Angineh Djavadghazaryans (she), Brigetta (Britt) Abel (she) and Faye Stewart (she): Gender Plurality in the German-Language Classroom: Constructing Linguistic and Cultural Identities Beyond Binaries Chapter 4. Lindsay D. Preseau, LeAnne Spino and Niko Tracksdorf: Gender Inclusivity Across the Curriculum: An Exploration of Novice and Advanced Course Content through Student Perspectives Part 3: Unmaking Gender Binaries and Remaking Gender Pluralities in Sociolinguistic Space Chapter 5. Maxen Jack-Monroe: Beyond il or elle and femme or homme: How Non-Binary Montréalers Navigate French Chapter 6. Jennifer Kaplan: The Social Life of Non-Binary French: How Non-Binary Francophones Linguistically Navigate Institutions Chapter 7. Sheryl Bernardo-Hinesley and Alba Arias Álvarez: Remaking Spanish Gender Binaries: Online Attitudes Toward Gender Pluralities Part 4: Unmaking Gender Binaries and Remaking Gender Pluralities as Resistance and Social Change Chapter 8. Michael Barnes: 'Estamos pavimentando el camino para futuros hablantes del castellano': Nonbinary Peninsular Spanish Languaging as Prefigurative Politics Chapter 9. Ben Papadopoulos: Identifying Gender in Gendered Languages: The Case of Spanish Chapter 10. Eric Louis Russell: Ciro è morto o morta? Symbolic Power and Discursive Effablity Kris Aric Knisely and Eric Louis Russell: Redoing and Undoing: When a Conclusion Is Just the Beginning Index
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 *
