Language, Sexism and Misogyny

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dc.identifier	ECF_chapter_4710
dc.contributor.author	Cameron Deborah
dc.title	Language, Sexism and Misogyny. The Reception of Women’s Political Speech
dc.type	Chapter
dc.language.iso	en
dc.description.abstract	This paper examines linguistic sexism and misogyny in the light of the philosopher Kate Manne’s recent proposals regarding the general definitions of these concepts and their relationship. Using the reception of female politicians’ speech as an illustration, it argues that misogyny can be expressed through a range of interactional and representational practices; many of these would not amount to ‘hate speech’ in the legal sense, but that does not mean they are innocuous. From a feminist perspective linguistic misogyny, together with sexism, can most usefully be understood as fulfilling an important political function in patriarchal societies: policing women’s public speech and undermining their claims to authority.
dc.relation.ispartof	Quaderni del Comitato Unico di Garanzia dell’Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.issued	2020-12-29
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-479-0/language-sexism-and-misogyny/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/978-88-6969-478-3/001
dc.identifier.issn	2724-4652
dc.identifier.eissn	2724-5713
dc.identifier.isbn	978-88-6969-479-0
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-88-6969-478-3
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
item.fulltext	with fulltext
item.grantfulltext	open
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Authority
dc.subject	Authority
dc.subject	Interaction
dc.subject	Interaction
dc.subject	Media
dc.subject	Media
dc.subject	Misogyny
dc.subject	Misogyny
dc.subject	Political speech
dc.subject	Political speech

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Language, Sexism and Misogyny

The Reception of Women’s Political Speech

Deborah Cameron University of Oxford, UK

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This paper examines linguistic sexism and misogyny in the light of the philosopher Kate Manne’s recent proposals regarding the general definitions of these concepts and their relationship. Using the reception of female politicians’ speech as an illustration, it argues that misogyny can be expressed through a range of interactional and representational practices; many of these would not amount to ‘hate speech’ in the legal sense, but that does not mean they are innocuous. From a feminist perspective linguistic misogyny, together with sexism, can most usefully be understood as fulfilling an important political function in patriarchal societies: policing women’s public speech and undermining their claims to authority.

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Dec. 29, 2020

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978-88-6969-479-0

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978-88-6969-478-3

Keywords: Interaction • Media • Misogyny • Political speech • Authority

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