Bamman Gender Roles

As you will read in the background of the project, we will be basing our project off of previous work done by Bamman, Underwood, and Smith (Bamman). Bamman has gone deeper than we intend to to identify personas, which include gender of the character. In his paper he mentions that the gender of personas has changed over time, but he does not investigate that further: “latent character types might cast new light on the history of gender in fiction. This is especially true since the distribution of personas across the time axis similarly reveals coherent trends” (Bamman et al.). We can use some of his techniques to identify the gender of the characters and build off of this idea. He includes both gendered character names and gendered pronouns