Revising sex and gender in the TEI Guidelines
With the October 2022 release of the TEI Guidelines, the TEI Technical Council introduced a element and several revisions to the documentation of related elements and attributes. These revisions respond to calls in the TEI community for a way to encode gender in the context of prosopography (or TEI...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | deu |
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Text Encoding Initiative Consortium
2025-04-01
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| Series: | Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/jtei/5705 |
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| Summary: | With the October 2022 release of the TEI Guidelines, the TEI Technical Council introduced a element and several revisions to the documentation of related elements and attributes. These revisions respond to calls in the TEI community for a way to encode gender in the context of prosopography (or TEI personography), distinct from linguistic morphological gender. In the process of introducing the new encoding, the Council revised passages of the Names, Dates, People, and Places (ND) chapter to remove prescriptive statements about sex and gender, and to modify the TEI’s guidance on representing individual states and traits. Building on the authors’ presentation to the September 2022 TEI Conference, this article discusses the 2022 efforts as one stage in a series of revisions over the past decade, provides background on the theory guiding their work, explores standoff personography applications of the new elements and attributes to a passage of Virginia Woolf’s Orlando, and discusses an experimental encoding of sex and gender in cast lists from early modern playbooks. |
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| ISSN: | 2162-5603 |