TO THE QUESTION OF THE HISTORY OF THE LINGUISTIC TERMS EMERGENCE: GENDER, MASCULINITY, FEMININITY
Journal Title: Мова - Year 2015, Vol 0, Issue 23
Abstract
The article gives a brief review of the history of the emergence of the linguistic terms gender, masculinity, and femininity. It stresses the importance of political and cultural background of these terms. Special attention is paid to understanding gender problems in the Soviet period. The subject of our article is the history of the emergence of linguistics terms, such as gender, masculinity, femininity. The aim of our research is to investigate the terms and to reveal the importance of political and cultural background of these terms. The main attention is paid to understanding gender problems in the Soviet period. Gender describes the characteristics that a society or culture delineates as masculine or feminine. Masculinity and femininity are the terms that are often used to identify a set of characteristics, values, and meanings related to gender. In our society, the values tied to masculinity have been generally seen as superior to those associated with femininity. Femininity and masculinity are rooted in the social (one’s gender) rather than the biological (one’s sex). We understand that femininity and masculinity are based upon social and cultural conditions. The researcher M. Bohachevska-Chomjak noted that women’s issue in the Soviet Union did not have a purely feminist character, it remained a social and political problem. The Soviet government was trying to impose a canon of «working mothers». The arguments we have presented in this research prove the fact that masculinity and femininity are represented in specific cultural circumstances, along with age and other factors, and what is generally considered to be natural, often turns out to be culturally marked. As a result, it becomes impossible to separate gender from political and cultural intersections in which it functions. To draw a conclusion, one can say that gender serves as a marker of biological, linguistic and cultural context which becomes a personal attribute.
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Victoriia O. ROMANENKO
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