Immasculation in the Language Uses of Science and Philosophy

Bleich, David

doi:10.5325/reception.13.1.0069

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Immasculation in the Language Uses of Science and Philosophy

David Bleich

DAVID BLEICH is a faculty member in the Department of English at the University of Rochester. His most recent book is The Materiality of Language: Gender, Politics, and the University (Indiana University Press, 2013).

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Reception: Texts, Readers, Audiences, History (2021) 13 (1): 69–75.

https://doi.org/10.5325/reception.13.1.0069

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Immasculation, Judith Fetterley's neologism, describes how male-coded language usages dominate the teaching of literature. In science and philosophy as well, male-coded uses of language have created innacurate senses of what scientists have studied in nature and in how we understand nature.

immasculation, adversarial thinking, manspeak, gendered language use

2021

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