Linguistic Injustice. The Fragility of women and girls' voices in sexist contexts

Raïd Layla (1)

1 CURAPP-ESS - Centre universitaire de recherches sur l'action publique et le politique. Epistémologie et Sciences sociales - UMR CNRS 7319

My paper deals with the fragility of women and girls' voices in sexist contexts. I describe this situation as one of linguistic injustice, and I propose an approach based on Wittgenstein and Cavell's works. I argue that the characteristic female experience of being silenced when they express their experiences in sexist contexts can be understood as an enforced lack of attunement with the community of male locutors.

Domaines: Sciences de l'Homme et Société

Raïd Layla. Linguistic Injustice. The Fragility of women and girls' voices in sexist contexts. Nordic Wittgenstein Review, In press. ⟨hal-04046223⟩