Diego Cruz
Catherin Koehler
Wri 1
28 October 2013
Language and Gender: Annotated Bibliography
An annotated bibliography is a bibliography that gives a summary of each of the
entries. Each entry will have a brief summary giving the purpose of the text, central
claim, background, and critical evidence. This will provide a summary for the reader to
understand the text in a different sense and style of writing. Although the summary
should capture every detail of the entry, it must be brief and concise to not confuse the
reader or to run into the problem of mixing up the story or meaning of the entry. Only the
most significant details will be mentioned. Background material and reference from
previous text should be omitted. No matter the style of the summary, it must always be
brief and the style must be used consistently.
Chopin, Kate, and Roxana Robinson. "The Matter of Prejudice." A Matter of Prejudice
and Other Stories by Kate Chopin. New York: Bantam, 1992. Print. Kate Chopin
was an American author of short stories and novels. She is now considered by
some to have been a forerunner of feminist authors of the 20th century. Madame
Carambeau was a woman of many prejudices - so many, in fact, that it would be
difficult to name them all. She detested dogs, cats, organ grinders, white servants
children's noises, Americans, Germans, and all people of a different faith from her
own. Anything not French had, in her opinion, little right to exist. She despised
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children especially the one who ran up to Madame Carambeau, but after she
started tending to the child, she became fond of her. In the end, Carambeaus view
on Americans had change from being irresponsible and not trusted to being very
great people.
Kimmel, Michael. "Bros Before Hos: The Guy Code." Language Awareness: Readings
for College Writers. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2000. 469-475. Print. Michael
Kimmel earned his B.A., PhD., and has an international reputation as a researcher,
lecturer, and writer on men and masculinity. In his article, he focuses on his view
on the “guy code” which he believes means masculinity. He hits on today’s
stereotype that all men should be firm and strong rather than weak and girl like.
He has set up for rules “No Sissy Stuff,” “Be a Big Wheel.” “Be a Sturdy Oak,”
and “Give ‘Em Hell” that determine men’s masculinity. Kimmel believed that the
older men in the younger men’s lives pass down the guy code. All this guy code
language can lead to homophobia. The guy-code can be very harmful to the young
men.
Ortiz Confer, Judith. The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named Maria.
Athens: University of Georgia, 1993. Print. Judith Confer is a Puerto Rican
author. Her work spans a range of literary genres including poetry, short stories,
autobiography, essays, and young-adult fiction. Confer’s article focuses on the
hardships that a Latin woman had to go through. All her hardships were brought
upon her because of the stereotypes portrayed by the media. Confer relives many
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of Maria’s experience she had with various men and other encounters. Maria had
grown up with cultural schizophrenia, which means she had to follow her own
culture while she watched her friends breaking the culture and living like the
media expected women to spend their lives. Because all of the stereotypes she
was treated badly by all the men she encountered. In the end, she states that she
would want to prove the trend wrong by becoming an educated wise Latin
woman. Confer really hits the spot on how the media it today with all the
stereotypes and it is time to break them.
Ortiz Cofer, Judith. "The Story of My Body." The Latin Deli: Prose and Poetry. Athens:
University of Georgia, 1993. N. pag. Print. Judith Cofer tells a story of a young
girl born of Puerto Rican decent and her struggles in the United States. The young
girl’s skin became damage due to her scars from the chicken pox she would
scratch when she was little. Cofer uses skin, color, and look to portray the way
people look upon prejudice. At first when the young girl lived in Puerto Rico, she
was called “Blanca” because of her skin color since everyone else was dark. She
was expected to be born dark which made the girl not believe she fit in with the
rest of the people and that she was an outcast. She was made fun of was her size;
she was smaller than the average Hispanic girl was. She dealt with the
stereotypical way people were chosen for sports, the bigger you are the better
player you are, so she was always chosen last. Everyone would ostracize her even
in the market when the butcher told her she was too dirty to be touching the dolls
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that were being sold. Cofer wrote this to point out that we need to focus on
looking past appearances and judge based on interactions.
Zeisler, Andi. "The B-Word? You Betcha." Washington Post. The Washington Post, 18
Nov. 2007. Web. 16 Oct. 2013. Andi Zeisler is a co-founder and creative/editorial
director of Bitch magazine, a nonprofit independent quarterly magazine published
in Portland, Oregon. Zeisler's writing, which focuses mainly on feminist
interpretations of popular culture. Zeisler’s article focuses around the word
“bitch” and it is meaning that has been twisted into something cynical in today’s
world. She articulates that the word is now a sexist term. All the commotion
directed to this word began through the title of her magazine Bitch and how
comfortable she was with using the term. Even though the word is sexist, it does
not mean she cannot articulate sexist implications. When people saw it on the
news, people reacted very negatively towards Zeisler. Others were unsure on how
to react. Zeisler explains that the word “bitch” was used for his magazine name
not to demean men but rather to elevate smart woman since the term “bitch”
demeans women. The word “bitch” characterizes “any woman who is strong,
angry, uncompromising and, often, uninterested in pleasing men.” Since Zeisler
used that word as his magazine title, people now think that she is trying to glorify
the word by bringing it fame.