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Immasculation in the Language Uses of Science and Philosophy
- Reception: Texts, Readers, Audiences, History
- Penn State University Press
- Volume 13, 2021
- pp. 69-75
- Article
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abstract:
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.