Abstract
This paper addresses the paradoxes and possibilities for academic feminism in the Third Millennium drawing on feminist linguistics. It targets the role of language in the construction of social gender, focusing on data from Greek, and shows that gendering discourse can effect cultural change. It is suggested that academic feminists can be agents of cultural change when they promote feminist language reform in the service of challenging the dominant gender order.
Highlights
Third Millennium feminist scholars find themselves in a world of paradoxes and possibilities
This world is governed by old monsters, such as heteronormativity, racism and white male domination, and new gods, such as neo-conservatism, anti-intellectualism and pessimism
The paper targets the role of naming/labeling practices drawing on language and gender research and shows that gendering discourse can effect cultural change
Summary
Third Millennium feminist scholars find themselves in a world of paradoxes and possibilities This world is governed by old monsters, such as heteronormativity, racism and white male domination, and new gods, such as neo-conservatism, anti-intellectualism and pessimism. Language ( PC language), and (iii) the power and limits of naming/labeling practices in the #metoo movement. These paradoxes are addressed from a feminist perspective. The paper targets the role of naming/labeling practices drawing on language and gender research and shows that gendering discourse can effect cultural change. This paper is an ‘exercise’ in breaking through paradoxes: it navigates the Third Millennium social landscape and seeks to identify ways for dismantling old monsters and displacing new gods with undutiful daughters
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