Finnish. The communication of gender in Finnish

1.Introduction 2. Women’s position in Finland 3. Research on gender in Finnish 4. Gender in Finnish 4.1 Personal nouns: Referential and morphological aspects 4.2 Male generics 4.3 Female generics 5. The interpretation of male generics: Empirical evidence 6. The empirical investigation of covert male bias 6.1 The prototypical human being 6.2 Ihminen as ‘woman’ 7. Gender in Finnish proverbs 8. Gendered terms of abuse 9. Female/male discourse 10. Language reform 11. Conclusion Notes References