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    What's Your Pronoun?: Beyond He and She
    What's Your Pronoun?: Beyond He and She
    What's Your Pronoun?: Beyond He and She
    Audiobook6 hours

    What's Your Pronoun?: Beyond He and She

    Written by Dennis Baron

    Narrated by Paul Boehmer

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    About this audiobook

    Contextualizing one of the most pressing cultural questions of our generation, Dennis Baron reveals the untold story of how we got from he and she to zie and hir and singular-they.

    Like trigger warnings and gender-neutral bathrooms, pronouns are sparking a national debate, prompting new policies in schools, workplaces, even prisons, about what pronouns to use. Colleges ask students to declare their pronouns along with their majors; corporate conferences print name tags with space to add pronouns; email signatures sport pronouns along with names and titles. Far more than a by-product of the culture wars, gender-neutral pronouns are, however, nothing new. Pioneering linguist Dennis Baron puts them in historical context, noting that Shakespeare used singular-they; women invoked the generic use of he to assert the right to vote (while those opposed to women's rights invoked the same word to assert that he did not include she); and people have been coining new gender pronouns, not just hir and zie, for centuries. Based on Baron's own empirical research, What's Your Pronoun? chronicles the story of the role pronouns have played-and continue to play-in establishing both our rights and our identities. It is an essential work in understanding how twenty-first-century culture has evolved.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateJan 21, 2020
    ISBN9781515948117
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    • 5/5
      the first half was rough, but it helped explain the intuition of discomfort of anglo students when they're learning how spanish genders things. the last chapter was especially powerful because it helps describe how 'em is the oldest 3rd person pronoun we have, meaning not having gendered pronouns is a thing with us. also due to royal we & group vs individual, plural vs singular is a fluid thing in english. point being, this was important, and it helped me learn some feminist history that comes in handy with studying other gender studies things such as sexuality, gender identity, disability politics, and surveillance.

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    • 3/5
      Sometimes a little repetitive, but otherwise an interesting look at the linguistics and history of single neutral pronouns and the political debate surrounding them. Would recommend if you can handle heavy academic text.

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