{"id":17,"date":"2013-02-15T14:31:37","date_gmt":"2013-02-15T09:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/feministwords.wordpress.com\/?p=17"},"modified":"2013-02-15T14:31:37","modified_gmt":"2013-02-15T09:01:37","slug":"language-and-patriarcy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tharkuri.in\/index.php\/2013\/02\/15\/language-and-patriarcy\/","title":{"rendered":"Do you watch what you&#8217;re saying?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kafila | Feb 11, 2013<\/p>\n<p>Feminists have always held that language plays a very important role perpetuating in gender-based oppression. In\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/kafila.org\/2013\/02\/11\/the-languages-of-sexual-violence-anupama-mohan\/\">this<\/a>\u00a0piece on Kafila.org, Anupama Mohan writes about phallogocentrism and the impact of language on societal values.<\/p>\n<p><em>In English, the word\u00a0seminal, which means something important and path-breaking, derives from \u201csemen\u201d and in contrast, the word\u00a0hysterical\u00a0or\u00a0hysteria, which is a word that has for long been associated with peculiarly female physical and mental disorders (and often used for recommending women\u2019s confinement), derives from \u201chystera\u201d or the womb.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>From there, she goes on to talk about the phallogocentrism, patriarchy, matriarchy, mythology, history, political correctness etc. to elaborate her point on the role of languages in the\u00a0society.<\/p>\n<p>Full article here:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/kafila.org\/2013\/02\/11\/the-languages-of-sexual-violence-anupama-mohan\/\">http:\/\/kafila.org\/2013\/02\/11\/the-languages-of-sexual-violence-anupama-mohan\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kafila | Feb 11, 2013 Feminists have always held that language plays a very important role perpetuating in gender-based oppression. In\u00a0this\u00a0piece on Kafila.org, Anupama Mohan writes about phallogocentrism and the impact of language on societal values. In English, the word\u00a0seminal, which means something important and path-breaking, derives from \u201csemen\u201d and in contrast, the word\u00a0hysterical\u00a0or\u00a0hysteria, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[130,131,171,226,241,257,279,284,311,335,337,424],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-femininity","tag-feminism","tag-history","tag-matriarchy","tag-motherhood","tag-mythology","tag-patriarchy","tag-phallogocentrism","tag-rape","tag-sexual-abuse","tag-sexual-violence","tag-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tharkuri.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tharkuri.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tharkuri.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tharkuri.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tharkuri.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tharkuri.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tharkuri.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tharkuri.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tharkuri.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}