Gender, language and culture in the Yemeni society

Abstract EN

The issue of language and gender has become one of the most important issues among the modern cultural studies.

This issue is multidisciplinary in scope and of deep cultural background.

This paper aims at focusing and analyzing the study from different spectrum.

The issue of gender and its relation with culture is a sophisticated matter that needs to be discussed carefully taking into consideration the social as well as the religious norms.

Surely, it is an issue that intervenes with some so-called religious legislation of the society.

It is due to this overlap and complexity between culture and religion from one side and between sex and gender from the other side that this paper tries to investigate the issue of gender in Arabic society, especially Yemeni.

Almost all Arab countries find it difficult to accept the concept of gender in its broad meaning as the West does.

It is due to the social norms and religious restrictions that people may interpret the word gender differently or wrongly.

Based on their social as well as religious inherited, Arabs with their culture look at the issue of gender as the nightmare that will undermine their moralities and Islamic personality.