What’’s Your Pronoun?: Beyond He and She

　　在我們這一代，因為自我性別認同的文化成長茁壯，促使語言學家、作者丹尼斯巴倫（Dennis Baron）透過本書揭示了關於語言中的性別代稱“He”和“She”如何變成了“Zie”、“Hir”和“Singular-they”的故事。

　　帶有性別意義的代詞，在這個時代引發了全國性的討論。在學校、公共場所甚至監獄中即以使用代詞提出了新的政策，大學要求學生依照他們的科系使用代詞; 公司會議打印的名稱標籤，留下了添加代詞的空間; 電子郵件簽名檔伴隨代詞、名稱和標題。

　　性別中立代詞遠不僅為現今文化大戰的副產品，更是歷史洪流中原本就擁有的。本書作者巴倫將從歷史背景之下，告訴我們莎士比亞使用了單數形式的代詞、女性援引了“HE”的一般用法來主張女性投票權（而反對婦女權利的人則援引了同一個詞來主張“HE”不包括“HER”）等，而幾個世紀以來，人們一直在創造新的性別代詞，而不僅僅是“Zie”和“Hir”。

　　你的代詞又是什麼呢？本書記述了代詞在確立我們的權利和身份中所起的作用，並繼續發揮書寫歷史的力量，同時也是了解21世紀文化如何演變的重要敘事。(文/博客來編譯)

　　Addressing one of the most pressing cultural questions of our generation, Dennis Baron reveals the untold story of how we got from he and she to zie and hir and singular-they.

　　Like trigger warnings and gender-neutral bathrooms, pronouns are sparking a national debate, prompting new policies in schools, workplaces, even prisons, about what pronouns to use. Colleges ask students to declare their pronouns along with their majors; corporate conferences print name tags with space to add pronouns; email signatures sport pronouns along with names and titles. Far more than a by-product of the culture wars, gender-neutral pronouns are, however, nothing new.

　　Pioneering linguist Dennis Baron puts them in historical context, noting that Shakespeare used singular-they; women invoked the generic use of he to assert the right to vote (while those opposed to women’s rights invoked the same word to assert that he did not include she); and people have been coining new gender pronouns, not just hir and zie, for centuries. Based on Baron’s own empirical research, What’s Your Pronoun? chronicles the story of the role pronouns have played―and continue to play―in establishing both our rights and our identities. It is an essential work in understanding how twenty-first-century culture has evolved.