Special module:
What Is gender?
Grammatical Gender AND Gender as Part of Identity
Watch this video to learn about the many ways we can consider gender in the language classroom with Dr. Amy Pistone of Gonzaga University.
About the scholar:
Dr. Amy Pistone is an Associate Professor of Classical Civilizations at Gonzaga University. After earning her BA in Classical Languages from UC Berkeley in 2008, she earned her PhD in Classical Studies from the University of Michigan in 2017. Her specialties are Greek tragedy as well as feminist theory and inclusive pedagogy. She has also worked on symposiastic culture in the ancient world, ancient and modern sports, and modern uses of classics in pop culture and is very interested in ways that Greek and Roman culture interacts with our contemporary world. Her recent publications include work on postcolonial reception of Greek tragedy and the uses of Amazon imagery among lesbian separatist communities. She is also a member of the Women's Classical Caucus's Executive Team and a co-chair of the Classics and Social Justice group.
Further Reading:
"Introduction: Sex and Gender Through the Prism of Difference," Gender through the Prism of Difference, eds. Zinn et al. Oxford University Press, 2005.
Daniel Libatique, “Object-ifying Language: In the Classroom, Syntax Can Be a Tool or a Weapon,” Eidolon, August 10, 2020.
Joanna Kenty, “Avenging Lucretia: From Rape to Revolution,” Eidolon, November 20, 2017. (CW: discussion of sexual violence, and how violence against women is used for rhetorical or metaphorical ends in Roman literature)
And, if you want to do more of a deep-dive on gender and linguistics:
Lauren M. Ackerman, "Syntactic and cognitive issues in investigating gendered coreference." Glossa 2019. (This is fairly dense but also super cool, on grammatical gender, semantic gender, and conceptual gender and how they do/don’t interact.)
Anne Curzan, Gender Shifts in the History of English. Cambridge University Press, 2003. (especially Chapter 3: “A history of gender, people, and pronouns: the story of generic he”)
Latin Vocabulary:
Words in bold on DCC Latin Core Vocabulary List
Proper Names:
Iudaea, Iudaeae, f. - Judea
Germania, Germaniae, f. - Germany
Nouns:
fāma, fāmae, f. - rumor, report; fame, reputation
ager, agrī, m. - field, farm
cōnsilium, cōnsiliī, n. - plan, purpose, advice, judgment, wisdom
fēmina, fēminae, f. - woman
fīlius, fīliī, m. - son
fīlia, fīliae, f. - daughter
canis, canis, m./f. - dog
praeceptum, praeceptī, n. - plan, purpose, counsel, advice, judgment
lībertas, lībertātis, f. - liberty
iūstitia, iūstitiae, f. - justice
Adjectives:
optimus, optima, optimum - best (superlative form of bonus, bona, bonum)
captus, capta, captum - captured (perfect passive participle form of capiō, capere, cēpī, captum)