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- Title
Radical Equity: A Case Study of the Use of Chinese Third-Person Pronouns in Taiwan's Third Grade Social Studies Textbooks.
- Authors
Vincent (Tzu-Wen) CHENG
- Abstract
Increased awareness throughout the world of inherent and persistent gender inequality has resulted in concerted efforts to devise non-discriminatory genderinclusive and gender-neutral third-person pronouns that transcend gender specificity and thus universally include all male, female, transgendered, transsexual, intersexual, queer-gendered, and otherwise gendered identified individuals. In Taiwan, the Taiwan Gender Equity Education Act was promulgated in 2004 to specifically promote substantive gender equity and eliminate gender discrimination. The intent of this study is to examine the history, use, and implications of using the "woman"-radical form of the third-person pronoun 她 as opposed to the human-radical 他 vis-à-vis the stated goal of promoting substantive gender equality in third grade Social Studies textbooks. Based upon a textual analysis of these textbooks’ use of third-person pronouns, this study proposes that future textbooks should abandon the use of the "woman"-radical third-person pronoun 她 completely and in its stead use/teach the human-radical thirdperson pronoun 他 universally as the optimal gender-inclusive and gender-neutral third-person pronoun.
- Subjects
SOCIAL sciences education; TEXTBOOK selection; TEXTBOOK readability; COURSE content (Education); TEACHING aids
- Publication
Intercultural Communication Studies, 2016, Vol 25, Issue 3, p99
- ISSN
1057-7769
- Publication type
Article