1982, John Simon, "The Sorry and the Lively", New York Magazine, 29 November 1982, page 82:
There is a wicked little skit and song about A Chorus Line, a demure number about no cocaine in Cancun, […] and a sassily puncturing anti-genderspeak ballad, "The Soldier and the Washerworker."
1988, The Western Pennsylvania Historical Magazine, page 290:
It is gratifying to read a book written in plain, old-fashioned English — no genderspeak, no parameters, interfaces or other manifestations of academic-bureaucratic prose.
1994, Mark Turnham Elvins, Towards a People's Liturgy: The Importance of Language, page 56:
'Man' when used of the human race is the primary use, which the Shorter Oxford Dictionary still upholds, and so what we are seeing is not a change of inclusive language so much as a kind of 'genderspeak'.
The result is a slightly odd hybrid of '90s genderspeak and the cornball phrasing in Preston Sturges movies. One of my favorite passages, on sex in sobriety, substitutes human beings for man and now reads: […]
2005, Bendrix Bailey, The Chief No Officer: Confessions of an Unconventional Entrepreneur, unnumbered page:
I've also strayed from the politically correct in many ways, not the least of which is genderspeak. I use he, him, his and so on throughout the book (unless I am writing about a woman), […]
1993, B. Eugene Griessman, Diversity: Challenges and Opportunities, page 44:
Eliminate genderspeak from job titles and terminology. Replace salesman and mailman with sales representative and mail carrier.
2014, Valerie Estelle Frankel, Women in Game of Thrones: Power, Conformity and Resistance, page 123:
While she [Olenna Tyrell] directly ridicules authority figures like Varys and Tyrion, and stands up for her goals, she also uses pacifying genderspeak as Daenerys does. She comforts a terrified Sansa by telling her they're just a group of a women chatting.
2011, James Penner, Pinks, Pansies, and Punks: The Rhetoric of Masculinity in American Literary Culture, page 91:
If 1948 was a watershed year for the visibility of homosexuality in American culture, 1949 can be read as the beginning of the backlash against soft masculinity and the "doughfaces" in government. In the genderspeak of the Cold War, the biggest doughface of them all was Alger Hiss.
Noun: "the communication style and/or speech pattern associated with a particular gender"[edit]
1994, Time, 3 October 1994, page 3 (table of contents):
Deborah Tannen’s new book examines office genderspeak
1994, Anne Roiphe, "Talking Trouble", Working Woman, October 1994, page 29:
Men and women don’t communicate any better in the office than they do at home, says Deborah Tannen’s new book, and women pay the price. But is the genderspeak theory just another way of stereotyping sex roles?
1997, Marry Guffey, Essentials of Business Communication, page 40:
Mary Crawford psychology professor at the University of South Carolina and an authority in the field of "genderspeak," complains that Tannen has not thoroughly analyzed the power issues involved in speech. Speech patterns, asserts Dr. Crawford, depend more on social status and the power relation between speaker and listener than on gender.
1998, Loretta LaRoche, Relax--You May Have Only a Few Minutes Left: Using the Power of Humor to Overcome Stress in Your Life and Work, page 143:
I think it's time we all lightened up and realized that we can't control each other's behaviors or alter each other's personalities by dissecting every little thing with genderspeak. Indeed, we should read, investigate, and educate ourselves to understand our differences. But you have to agree that if you did everything many of these books told you to do, you would have a 24-hour job. You'd end up too tired for a relationship.
2002, Deborah Tannen, I Only Say This Because I Love You: Talking to Your Parents, Partner, Sibs, and Kids When You're All Adults, page 136:
Genderspeak creates confusion between parents and children of the opposite sex just as surely as it does between parents themselves. For mothers, having sons can be a mystery, just as having daughters can be a mystery for fathers.
Noun: "the characteristic jargon of gender theory and gender-related discourse"[edit]
2018, Prabha Kotiswaran, "Governance Feminism in the Postcolony: Reforming India's Rape Laws", in Governance Feminism: An Introduction, unnumbered page:
As the NCW started to appropriate genderspeak to offer little more than pure protectionism and to legitimize state violence, however, Indian feminists secured other venues of influence.