In this post, Kathleen interviews Matthew Cull (University of Edinburgh), Jules Holroyd (University of Sheffield), and Fiona Woollard (University of Southampton) on their funded exchange project ' Inclusive Language in Perinatal and Postnatal Care '. Poster from https://engagedphilosophy.org/inclusive/ Hello! Can you tell us a little bit about your recent project? The project is a knowledge exchange project, about how to make language gender inclusive in perinatal and postnatal care. We’ve recently written a paper, which we’re nearly ready to submit for publication, about how standard approaches to inclusive language tend to be ‘monistic’: they aim to use one strategy, either making language gender-neutral (e.g. replacing ‘pregnant women’ with ‘pregnant people’) or gender additive (e.g. writing ‘pregnant women, trans men and nonbinary people’). Working through a number of case studies, we find that no single strategy can meet the moral and communicative goals in all contexts.
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