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Peer reviewedBlaubergs, Maija S. – Roeper Review, 1980
A review of the literature indicates that many parents, teachers, and counselors of the gifted continue to express sex stereotypes and reflect attitudes that are detrimental to the development of the abilities of gifted girls. (PHR)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Females, Gifted, Literature Reviews
Peer reviewedBlaubergs, Maija S. – Psychology of Women Quarterly, 1978
Various suggestions regarding changing sexist language are categorized according to underlying rationale: indirect change, change via circumvention, and change via emphasis on feminine terms. Various alternative strategies for implementation are discussed, and arguments and research supportive of and critical of the underlying rationales are…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Feminism, Language Usage, North American English
Blaubergs, Maija S. – 1979
This paper is an overview of the introduction of "Ms." into language usage as part of the process of changing sexist language. Included are: (1) history of the term, (2) a discussion of the rationale for its introduction, (3) a report on the other suggested forms of address that do or do not specify sex and marital status, (4) a discussion of the…
Descriptors: Females, Feminism, Language Attitudes, Language Patterns
Download full textBlaubergs, Maija S. – 1975
In this paper, the structure and the use of language are postulated as socializing agents influencing sex-role learning in three major ways: (1) sex differences occur in language use and parallel sex-role stereotypes; (2) the language that is addressed to children is usually the language of socialization which instructs the child what to do,…
Descriptors: Child Language, Language Patterns, Language Usage, Role Perception
Blaubergs, Maija S. – 1979
Proposals for changing sexist language, while having an increasing impact on patterns of language usage in America, have also continuously been argued against in the media and in academia during the 1970's. The proposals for eliminatinq the usage of masculine terms as "generics" have received the most criticism. In this paper, the various…
Descriptors: Females, Feminism, Language Attitudes, Language Patterns
Blaubergs, Maija S. – 1974
Parallels between processes in society and in language are drawn in this analysis of problems involved in eliminating sexism in language. The paper is organized as follows: varieties of sexism in language are outlined; the linguistic notion of marking is applied to the sexist structures; psychological aspects of such marking are considered;…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Feminism, Language Attitudes, Language Patterns
Blaubergs, Maija S. – 1978
The first section of this paper focuses on misunderstandings surrounding two of the proposals for changing sexist aspects of the English language, namely, avoiding the use of masculine pronouns (he, his, him, himself) with alleged sex-indefinite reference, and replacing the word and morpheme "man" with "person" in sex-indefinite usage. Several…
Descriptors: English, Feminism, Grammar, Language Patterns
