Gender stereotypes in Spanish phraseology

Gutiérrez Rubio, Enrique, 1976-

Gender stereotypes in Spanish phraseology = Estereotipos de género en la fraseología Española / Enrique Gutiérrez Rubio. -- In this paper the results of research on gender stereotypes underlying Spanish phraseology are presented. Its main aim is to reveal which gender stereotypes are explicitly or implicitly present in commonly used contemporary Spanish Phraseological Units (PUs). In order to achieve this goal, 407 PUs associated with men and women and excerpted from a dictionary of current Spanish phraseology have been analyzed using the research possibilities provided by the cognitive linguistics approach to phraseology. In order to systematize the analysis, an inventory of stereotypes has been collected and split into five thematic categories: physical characteristics; attitude, personality and abilities; sexuality; family; activities and professions. Moreover, a sixth, transversal category has been added – the opposite male and female conceptualizations of the passing of time.

In GÉNEROS : Multidisciplinary Journal of Gender Studies. -- Barcelona : Hipatia Press, 2018. -- ISSN 2014-3613. -- Vol. 7, no. 3 (2018), pp. 1709-1736