The Cambridge Handbook for the Anthropology of Gender and Sexuality

0583166 - EÚ 2024 GB eng M - Monography Chapter
Rudwick, Stephanie
Gender(ed) Language and the Linguistics of Sexuality.
The Cambridge Handbook for the Anthropology of Gender and Sexuality. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023 - (McCallum, C.; Posocco, S.; Fotta, M.), s. 213-236. ISBN 9781108647410
Institutional support: RVO:68378076
Keywords : language * Zulu * gender * ethnicity * sexuality
OECD category: Antropology, ethnology
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/cambridge-handbook-for-the-anthropology-of-gender-and-sexuality/gendered-language-and-the-linguistics-of-sexuality/1A6F187CC1878A404F0A2BB60A639F99

The first part of this chapter provides a brief overview of the developments in the study of language, gender, and sexuality, with a focus on anthropological works and leading ethnographies, while the second part focuses on a particular case study from South Africa. It aims to capture examples of the multiple, flexible, and fluid ways in which linguistic, gender, and sexual identities are entangled and how they are negotiated in relation to power. The case study focuses on Zulu speakers, South Africa’s largest ethnolinguistic group. Ethnographic detail from the province of KwaZulu-Natal provides a nuanced discussion of how gendered and sexual Zulu identities are represented through three selected linguistic styles and how despite important differences in the Zulu ways of speaking and being, there are also remarkable commonalities that expose a matrix of oppression based on patriarchy, sexual and gender(ed) “otherness,” as well as pervasive heteronormativity and racism. The study demonstrates that African spaces provide a multitude of linguistic resources to recalibrate previous thinking around language, gender, and sexualities by theorizing with a “southern” lens.
Permanent Link: https://hdl.handle.net/11104/0351314