Disrespectful Female: The Problem with Calling Women Females

The work done in this paper seeks to critically look at the usage of the word “female” as a replacement word for “woman” in a way that points out the inherent disrespect that is ingrained into the usage of that word. Utilizing Critical Discourse Analysis influenced by feminist theory, queer theory, and critical race theory frameworks, I hope to better understand how and why the word “female” has come to denote such disrespect while doing so in a more covert fashion than typical insults tend to do.

Author

• Lear, Jordan

• Female
• Female as disrespect
• Misogyny in using female
• Feminism
• Disrespect and misogyny
• Power in words

Identifier

hdl:1920/13558

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:MARS:1920/13558