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Judging a Book by its Description : Analyzing Gender Stereotypes in the Man Bookers Prize Winning Fiction

Jul 25, 2018
Nishtha Madaan, Sameep Mehta, Shravika Mittal, Ashima Suvarna

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The presence of gender stereotypes in many aspects of society is a well-known phenomenon. In this paper, we focus on studying and quantifying such stereotypes and bias in the Man Bookers Prize winning fiction. We consider 275 books shortlisted for Man Bookers Prize between 1969 and 2017. The gender bias is analyzed by semantic modeling of book descriptions on Goodreads. This reveals the pervasiveness of gender bias and stereotype in the books on different features like occupation, introductions and actions associated to the characters in the book.

* arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1710.04117 
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