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This book explores the undoing of gender binaries in non-Anglophone communities and contexts, through their connected linguistic and social unscripting. This is an important step in scholarship in language and gender, one that will inform a public increasingly aware of these remakings, both within and beyond grammatical gender.
About the author
Kris Aric Knisely is an Assistant Professor of French and Intercultural Competence in the Department of French & 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 Associate Professor in the Department of French and Italian, and affiliated faculty in the Linguistics Program at the University of California, Davis, USA. His research interests include linguistic analysis of discourse and cultural praxes, focusing on sexualities/gender, particularly the forms and structures of masculinities, prejudices, and hegemonies.
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This book explores the undoing of gender binaries in non-Anglophone communities and contexts, through their connected linguistic and social unscripting. This is an important step in scholarship in language and gender, one that will inform a public increasingly aware of these remakings, both within and beyond grammatical gender.
