R.W. Connell argues that masculinity is not a unitary phenomenon; rather, masculinities emerge out of situationally specific choices drawn from ‘cultural repertoire’ so-called masculine behaviour result in particular ‘configuration practice’. Ben Lerner's novel The Topeka School (2019) calls attention to this process by focussing on the coding speech-acts as context mid-nineties, small-town Kan...

Personal pronouns occur repeatedly in the works of Italian artists Mirella Bentivoglio and Ketty La Rocca. Both were significantly shaped by visual poetry late 1960s, continued their exploration language arts throughout 1970s. Notably, engagement with personal centered first-person singular “I.” As key site subject-constitution language, this linguistic category is crucial to a great number ear...

We examined the possibility that nonsocial, highly generic concepts are gendered. Specifically, we investigated the gender connotations of Arabic numerals. Across several experiments, we show that the number 1 and other odd numbers are associated with masculinity, whereas the number 2 and other even numbers are associated with femininity, in ways that influence judgments of stimuli arbitrarily ...

We can ask whether there anything it is distinctively like to be female or male (a question about sex). And we feminine masculine gender). I think the answer both these questions “Obviously yes”. Why yes? why obviously? Consciousness gendered, and obviously because political realities of what masculine, feminine, are different. Moreover, consciousness sexed too, sexed, physical male, female, th...

This paper is an ethnography of a four-year, multi-disciplinary adolescent sexual and reproductive health intervention in Bolivia, Nicaragua and Ecuador. An important goal of the intervention--and of the larger global field of adolescent sexual and reproductive health--is to create more open parent-to-teen communication. This paper analyzes the project's efforts to foster such communication and...