Thanks everyone for your excellent suggestions. The document (https://goo.gl/1olMEG) 
now has a good selection of useful readings for accessibly deconstructing gender for 
sociolinguistics undergrads. I've duly pointed my students to a number of them already.

I'll leave the document there permanently so we can all refer back to it when needed.

Dave

--
Dr. Dave Sayers
Senior Lecturer, Dept Humanities, Sheffield Hallam University | www.shu.ac.uk
Honorary Research Fellow, Cardiff University & WISERD | www.wiserd.ac.uk
[log in to unmask] | http://shu.academia.edu/DaveSayers



On 24/11/2015 15:11, Dave Sayers wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I teach sociolinguistics in different forms to first year and second year undergrads.
> Both modules involve group projects, and they usually choose to explore some aspect
> of language and gender (almost invariably in fact!). It's fine because their topic
> ideas are usually not as deathly boring as just 'do men and women speak differently?'
> (for example one of my groups wants to compare male and female discussions of ISIS!)
> but still they do tend to oversimplify gender roles. I quickly and consistently pull
> them up on this, and to my surprise and delight it gets easier every year as gender
> diversity becomes a more mainstream topic, but still it's an uphill trek.
>
> This is partly my own stupid fault for spending a lot of the lectures showing
> language differences between 'men and women' - in my defence that's kind of
> unavoidable when you're reviewing the history of a discipline that has not really
> deconstructed gender until really quite recently.
>
> So two related requests for info: textbook-type readings that draw out gender
> diversity beyond a two-way split (ideally in relation to language), and primary
> sociolinguistic research - accessible to undergrads - which picks apart the primacy
> of gender as an explanatory category and/or explores a diversity of gender roles in
> relation to linguistic behaviour.
>
> As is my way, I've made a publicly editable Google document for this so that people
> can more easily see each other's contributions, and to save my poor inbox:
> https://goo.gl/1olMEG.
>
> Thanks in advance for any and all suggestions!
>
> Dave
>
> --
> Dr. Dave Sayers
> Senior Lecturer, Dept Humanities, Sheffield Hallam University | www.shu.ac.uk
> Honorary Research Fellow, Cardiff University & WISERD | www.wiserd.ac.uk
> [log in to unmask] | http://shu.academia.edu/DaveSayers
>

---
This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software.
https://www.avast.com/antivirus