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As Eckert and McConnell-Ginet point out we are increasingly using they when the sex of the referent is unknown or the speaker does not want to
genderize the individual spoken about (Ibid).
Indeed, if Djebar chooses to
genderize this contested territory of human agency, it is because, once again, Algerian women have become pawns in a political and epistemological power struggle among men.
Complementing the presentation of Jimmy as a self-absorbed, parochial male are streaks of tenderness, sensitivity and empathy in him that run counter to his father's attempts to
genderize him into a "tough guy" (17).
She cites studies which range from feminist re-visionings of various mythologies in psychological terms to contemporary theories of education which
genderize our "ways of knowing." Women's studies, of course, grew out of such multi-disciplinarity, as it requires the flexibility to locate women's experiences beyond the artificial and rigid barriers of our masculist intellectual structures.
In the American worker-writer tradition, the genderizing of American writing also tends to
genderize the concept of class.
And to negotiate the associated difficulty about thinking that divine transcendence is compromised by associating God with the "feminine," which in turn
genderizes appropriate ways of thinking and experiencing divine presence and immanence, sacramental or other-wise.
By existing, "El Brujo"
genderizes and sexualizes everything, even language, in ways that had not been considered by this society.
(134) Anzaldua
genderizes history in this poem by illustrating the multiple layers of power relations that privilege the center intersected by race, class and sexual orientation.