The Postfeminist Masquerade and the Cynical Male Gaze: The Disavowal of Sexual Difference in Lars von Trier’s Breaking the Waves by Tamas NAGYPAL

“…This article is a commentary on the Lacanian appropriation of Breaking the Waves by Slavoj Zizek, Frances Restuccia and others who argue that the film’s saintly heroine, Bess, performs an authentic feminine act paradoxically in her very suicidal over-identification with her husband’s male chauvinistic desire pressing her to have sex with other men, through which she successfully demonstrates the deadlock of sexual difference and subverts the phallic-masculine symbolic order. By contrast, this paper argues that the heroine is rather trapped in what Angela McRobbie called the postfeminist masquerade, a feminine gender performance that returns to old forms of patriarchal subordination but with an ironic distance, thereby allowing the subject to imagine herself free of the capture of the masculine symbolic universe. …”
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L’accord de proximité en genre : quelques considérations diachroniques by Anne Abeillé, Aixiu An, Yingqin Hu

“…According to Moreau (2019), masculine agreement was dominant in middle French, in case of mixed gender coordinated nouns. …”
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Cross-Gendering the Racial Memory by Marlon B. Ross

“…It is a long-standing practice within many patriarchal cultures, in other words, to project highly abstract masculine visions of established power onto a female form, draped in feminine attire. …”
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A diferença como política de resistência e de ressignificação da subjetividade feminina em campos de saberes masculinos by Neiva Furlin, Marlene Tamanini

“…This article analyzes narratives of women teachers inserted into the context of teaching Catholicism in a traditionally masculine space structured to be unintelligible to women. …”
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What Remains of Manhood by Eleonora Belligni

“…It is a cultural operation to define a masculine power that considers women as the embodiment of an exception or an aberration. …”
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Genre et littérature en contexte (post)colonial by Maëlle Gélin

“…Ces dernières forment un groupe hétérogène et leur insertion dans des réseaux intellectuels masculins a pu conditionner leur reconnaissance ou, au contraire, leur éviction. …”
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Portrayal of Men in Damilare Kuku Nearly all Men in Lagos. by Arineitwe, Bridget

“…Such studies can provide deeper insights into how masculine stereotypes evolve over time and their impact on society…”
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Male sex ratio of red tilapia Oreochromis sp. after soaking in different concentrations of coconut milk at larvae stadia by Fajar Maulana, Agus Oman Sudrajat, Andre Permana, Lina Mulyani, Harton Arfah

“…Male tilapia has a faster growth rate than female tilapia. Masculinization can be carried out to produce monosexual tilapia seeds to accelerate fish growth. …”
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Stereotypically thinking: Norms for stereotypical gender nouns in Polish and English. by Katarzyna Jankowiak, Marcin Naranowicz, Anna Skałba, Dariusz Drążkowski, Joanna Pawelczyk

“…A total of 317 participants rated the degree of stereotypically feminine and masculine features when presented with 240 nouns in each language. …”
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Les genres récrits n° 1 by Daniel Elmiger

“…In certain texts, a footnote makes an explicit statement about forms or constructions that are used, e. g. generically used masculine forms. This column explores the meaning and the utility of such footnotes.…”
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Les rites initiatiques féminins du Holo et du Hoyougo en pays Tagbana de Côte d’Ivoire en période précoloniale by Tiegbe TOURE

“…A l’instar de tout le peuple sénoufo reconnu pour sa propension aux rites initiatiques tel le poro communautaire, les Tagbana pratiquent des rites initiatiques particuliers. Ces rites sont masculins et féminins. Si les rites initiatiques masculins sont connus, ceux des femmes demeurent inconnus malgré leur vivacité sur le terrain. …”
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« Qu’ouïr (ou plus...) dans dix (ou plus !) dandies queer (ou plus ?) : traverser l’épreuve de l’extérieur » by Gilbert Pham-Thanh

“…The approach is based on the constitutive distinctions of the now common trilogy of the stranger, the foreigner and the alien, to which will be added the polysemic notion of queerness in order to shift the focus to the field of masculinities studies. The analysis of the positions of narrators, characters and readers will form the main axis in this study of dandiacal otherness.…”
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« Le rôle homosexuel » revisité. Entretien avec Mary McIntosh [1981] by Mary McIntosh, Kenneth Plummer, Jeffrey Weeks

“…She regrets having considered the matter in an essentially masculine dimension without interrogation and states that it is necessary to no longer take heterosexuality for granted and that homosexuality should be studied through the broad ensemblethatconstitutesthe social organization ofsexuality.…”
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Proximal Hypospadias Repair Outcomes in Patients with a Specific Disorder of Sexual Development Diagnosis by Blake W. Palmer, William Reiner, Brad P. Kropp

“…Boys with undermasculinized external genital and/or 46,XY disorders of sex development (DSD) often receive masculinizing genitoplasty. Such procedures are done to correct ventral curvature of the phallus, reposition a proximally located urethral meatus, and cosmetically correct the appearance of labioscrotal folds. …”
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Les mots des hommes sur des maux de femmes. Les déclarations de grossesse illégitime au bailliage de Rouen (1761-1790) by Catherine Hans Ménétrier

“…Although these documents are written in a masculine, administrative style, they also contain the rare voices of women. and provide an insight into what led these women to illegitimacy and how they approached the process of informing the authorities of their pregnancy.…”
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Les genres décrits n° 1 by Lucy Michel

“…The first section of this series concentrates on the ways sex and grammatical gender are described in (French unilingual) reference grammar books, as well as on the ways these descriptions mould discourses and beliefs about masculine and feminine within the French langage. The recurrence of the same « facts » and the same « regularities » contributes to the construction of apparent « truths » about language, that are often seen as basic and unquestionable. …”
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Les femmes, le socialisme et l’organisation du travail : Oyonnax (Ain) 1890-1939 by Charles Sowerwine

“…The socialist leaders sought to reduce the masculine ambiance of the party and of the People’s House. …”
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Le turc, une langue sans genre grammatical : la solution pour une langue plus égalitaire ? by Eléonore de Beaumont

“…Two strategies coexist today to try to make the French language more egalitarian in terms of gender: fighting against the predominance of the masculine in the language and therefore in our representations can be achieved either by multiplying gender marks or, on the contrary, by erasing them. …”
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ALGORITHMS FOR IDENTIFICATION OF CUES WITH AUTHORS’ TEXT INSERTIONS IN BELARUSIAN ELECTRONIC BOOKS by Y. S. Hetsevich, T,. I. Okrut, B. M. Lobanov

“…Testing showed the following results: the mean harmonic quantity for masculine gender detection makes up 92,2 %, and for feminine gender detection – 90,4%.…”
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Inclusivité linguistique : une quête de clarté et de précision conceptuelle by Paweł Golda, Natalia Żywicka

“…Additionally, it examines eight techniques designed to avoid the use of generic masculine expressions. The paper takes an analytical approach to characterize nine terms that frequently appear in linguistic literature, identifying which practices may be encompassed within the specified terms.…”
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