Male and Female Pronoun Use in U.S. Books Reflects Women’s Status, 1900–2008

By Jean M. Twenge, W. Keith Campbell, Brittany Gentile. 2012

88 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Gender Studies

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In Gender Studies

1. Sabine Sczesny
2. J. Bono
3. Emily E. Duehr
4. J. Bosak

Citations in the corpus

• Can Gender-Fair Language Reduce Gender Stereotyping and Discrimination? (2016, background): “The interrelation of language and the gender hierarchy has also been documented in a study which analyzed the ratio of male to female pronouns (e.g., he/she, his/hers) in written texts (full texts of about 1.2 million U.S. books, years 1900–2008; from the Google Books database; Twenge et al., 2012).”
• Characterizing the Google Books Corpus: Strong Limits to Inferences of Socio-Cultural and Linguistic Evolution (2015, background): “Examples of such analyses involve words or phrases surrounding individuality [5], gender [6], urbanization [7], and time [1, 8], all of which are of profound interest.”