La valorisation du genre dans quelques termes du langage religieux

Analysis of responses in Italian to instructions to make a sentence with one of the following words : celibato (celibate), vergine (virgin), divinità (divinity), or to give the definition of the words dio (god) or dea (goddess) confirms that male respondents choose themselves as the subject of discourse at the expense of feminine subjects, and that they privilege terms which represent their own sex. Women avoid defining themselves as subjects and privilege male or neuter subjects, even when the cue induces a feminine subject or a representation of the feminine gender.Crippa Sabina. La valorisation du genre dans quelques termes du langage religieux. In: Langages, 27ᵉ année, n°111, 1993. Genres culturels et interculturels, sous la direction de Luce Irigaray. pp. 39-47