Tag: Genders

Digital Fissures Bodies, Genders, Technologies


Free Download Carlotta Cossutta, "Digital Fissures: Bodies, Genders, Technologies "
English | ISBN: 9004520813 | 2022 | 127 pages | PDF | 8 MB
From rethinking feminist archives, to inserting postpornography in academia, to approaching sex toys from a transpositive perspective, to dismantling the foundations of techno-capitalism, the areas of inquiry in this book are lenses through which to explore the relationships between genders, bodies and technologies. All the various chapters work to reimagine the body as a hybrid, malleable and subversive source of potentiality. These essays offer readers road maps for unimagined and uncharted social scapes: the relationship between bodies-technologies-genders means working within a space of monstrosity. Through this embodied discomfort the book questions existing techno-social norms, and imagines tranfeminist futures.

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Genders and Classifiers A Cross-Linguistic Typology


Free Download Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, "Genders and Classifiers: A Cross-Linguistic Typology "
English | ISBN: 0198842015 | 2019 | 336 pages | PDF | 3 MB
This volume offers a comprehensive account of the typology of noun classification across the world’s languages. Every language has some means of categorizing objects into humans, or animates, or by their shape, form, size, and function. The most widespread are linguistic genders – grammatical classes of nouns based on core semantic properties such as sex (female and male), animacy, humanness, and also shape and size. Classifiers of several types also serve to categorize entities. Numeral classifiers occur with number words, possessive classifiers appear in the expressions of possession, and verbal classifiers are used on a verb, categorizing its argument. These varied sorts of genders and classifiers can also occur together. This volume elaborates on the expression, usage, history, and meanings of noun categorization devices, exploring their various facets across the languages of South America and Asia, which are known for the diversity of their noun categorization.

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