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| | Gender role - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Gender roles have long been a staple of the Nature/Nurture debate: Traditional theories of gender usually assume that one's gender identity, and hence one's gender role, is a natural given. | | | When an individual exhibits a gender role that is discordant with his or her gender identity, it is most often done to deliberately provoke a sense of incongruity and a humorous reaction to the attempts of a person of one sex to pass himself or herself off as a member of the opposite sex. | | | In the social sciences and humanities, a gender role is a set of behavioral norms associated with males and with females, respectively, in a given social group or system. |
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| | Gay,Lesbian,Straight Education Network: The Language of Gender |
| | Gender Expression: Refers to the ways in which people externally communicate their gender identity to others through behavior, clothing, hairstyle, voice, and emphasizing, de-emphasizing, or changing their bodies' characteristics. | | | When discussing gender identity and expression, it is important to first recognize that sexual orientation is distinct from and independent of gender. | | | Gender Dysphoria: Unhappiness or discomfort with the gender role assigned by family and society to ones biological sex. |
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| | THE MERCK MANUAL, Sec. 15, Ch. 192, Psychosexual Disorders |
| | Although biologic factors, such as gender complement and the prenatal hormonal milieu, largely determine gender identity, the formation of a secure, unconflicted gender identity and gender role is influenced by social factors, such as the character of the parents' emotional bond and the relationship that each of them has with the child. | | | Core gender identity is a subjective sense of knowing to which gender one belongs, ie, the awareness that "I am a male" or "I am a female." Gender identity is the inner sense of masculinity or femininity. | | | Gender identity disorder is not diagnosed if a person engages in cross-dressing or other cross-gender activities without concurrent psychologic distress or functional impairment or if a person has a physical intersex condition (eg, congenital adrenal hyperplasia, ambiguous genitalia, androgen insensitivity syndrome). |
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| | Politicizing Gender |
| | Gender must be liberated, but we all must have a voice in what that means, not from an abstract pre-determined theory, but a synthesis of real people's experiences. | | | Gender was understood as oppressive because it created artificially constructed roles of feminine and masculine to legitimate male supremacy. | | | Minkowitz responded that she didn't believe there are any essential gender categories, and while transsexual's choice should be respected, there is no such thing as a true transsexual. |
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| | Gender identity - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | When, for instance, the gender identity of a person makes him a man, but his genitals are female, he may experience what is called gender dysphoria, i.e., a deep unhappiness caused by his experience of himself as a man and his lack of male genitals. | | | The formation of a gender identity is a complex process that starts with conception, but which involves critical growth processes during gestation and even learning experiences after birth. | | | Alternatively, some people who experience gender dysphoria retain the genitalia that they were born with (see transsexual for some of the possible reasons), but adopt a gender role that is consonant with what they perceive as their gender identity. |
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| | Gender identity - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | When, for instance, the gender identity of a person makes him a man, but his genitals are female, he may experience what is called gender dysphoria, i.e., a deep unhappiness caused by his experience of himself as a man and his lack of male genitals. | | | The related term, "gender role," has two meanings that in individual cases may be divergent: First, people's gender roles are the totality of the ways by which they express their gender identities. | | | The formation of a gender identity is a complex process that starts with conception, but which involves critical growth processes during gestation and even learning experiences after birth. |
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| | Feminism and Women's Studies: Sexual Identity and Gender Identity Glossary |
| | Sexual Identity and Gender Identity are similar in some ways and very different in others. | | | In particular, these definitions assume the existence of two and only two each of sexes, genders, and sex/gender roles, which are separate and distinct from one another; but many people see them as overlapping, closely related, or as a limited view or model of a much richer reality. | | | Sexual identity refers to how one thinks of oneself in terms of whom one is sexually and romantically attracted to, specifically whether one is attracted to members of the same gender as one's own or the other gender than one's own. |
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| | eMedicine - Sexuality: Gender Identity : Article by Shuvo Ghosh, MD |
| | A thorough evaluation of gender identity, preferred gender role, and social interactions is needed to assess the patient. | | | However, physicians should remember that all individuals possess a gender identity and that the process of becoming aware of it is an important part of the psychosocial development of a child. | | | The topic of gender identity is often discussed merely in terms of dysfunction, and the diagnosis of gender identity disorder is a known phenomenon in both children and adults. |
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| | Gender role - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Gender roles have long been a staple of the Nature/Nurture debate: Traditional theories of gender usually assume that one's gender identity, and hence one's gender role, is a natural given. | | | When an individual exhibits a gender role that is discordant with his or her gender identity, it is most often done to deliberately provoke a sense of incongruity and a humorous reaction to the attempts of a person of one sex to pass himself or herself off as a member of the opposite sex. | | | Gender role can vary according to the social group to which a person belongs or the subculture with which he or she chooses to identify. |
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| | May 2003:Helping Adolescents Develop a Healthy Sexual Identity |
| | Sexual orientation, core gender identity and sex/gender roles are all important parts of sexual identity, but none of these by itself makes up the entire story. | | | Sexual or gender roles are characteristics, behaviors, and interests defined by society or culture as appropriate for members of each gender. | | | Core gender identity usually develops in childhood and is the sense of oneself as male or female, a boy or girl. |
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| | FS: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Youth Issues |
| | During adolescence, young people tend to experience their first adult erotic feelings, experiment with sexual behaviors, and develop a strong sense of their own gender identity and sexual orientation | | | Same-gender attraction and anticipated future same-gender sexual experience was reported by 4.4 percent and same-gender sexual fantasy by 4.4 percent of respondents. | | | In Minnesota, of 36,254 respondents in the seventh to twelfth grades, 1.1 percent of students described themselves as bisexual, mostly homosexual, or 100 percent homosexual. Same-gender sexual attraction and anticipated future same-gender sexual experience was reported by 5.1 percent, and same-gender sexual fantasy was reported by 2.8 percent of respondents. |
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| | FQS 2(1) Natilene Irain Bowker: Understanding Online Communities Through Multiple Methodologies Combined Under a Postmodern Research Endeavour |
| | Extracts three to seven, which concentrated on gender identity exploration, indicated participants were conceptualising gender identity manipulation as a strategic mechanism for either protection against sexual objectification, or as a tool for experimentation whether that included amusement or challenging behavioural boundaries. | | | Results suggested that gender socialisation, with respect to the way men are taught to explore beyond their boundaries, extends to the online arena regarding differentiation in degrees of identity exploration between male and female chat users. | | | Interviewees' emphasis on stability in identity may shed some light on why a majority of survey respondents, irrespective of gender, adopted a regular nickname consistent with their RL gender, while at the same time men were found to be more likely to explore aspects of their identity. |
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| | The HBIGDA 'Standards Of Care' (Version 6, 2001) |
| | The real-life experience is essential to the transition to the gender role that is congruent with the patient's gender identity. | | | The true transsexual was thought to be a person with a characteristic path of atypical gender identity development that predicted an improved life from a treatment sequence that culminated in genital surgery. | | | Gender identity disorders in children and adolescents are different from those seen in adults, in that a rapid and dramatic developmental process (physical, psychological and sexual) is involved. |
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| | One article for the XVth World Congress of Sexology-Paris2001 |
| | If the social environment and the sex of rearing is syncronous with the gender identity, and also the genitals naturally or surgically are in harmony, the child is normal, with no problem or dysphoria --- this way lives the great majority of humans. | | | If the social pressure is syncronous or lightly assincronous with the neuro-psychical gender identity--- lived by the child as a deep feeling to be a boy or a girl--- the identity naturally stabilizes in a steady state. | | | The social pressure in discord with the gender identity may cause neurosis and even psychosis and suicides. |
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| | Mermaids - Gender Identity Disorders in Children and Adolescents |
| | Criteria A and B (Last section) refer to two aspects of the gender identity disorder: A to evidence of cross-gender identification and B to the experience of discomfort about the biological sex and the feeling of inappropriateness in the gender role of that sex. | | | The recognition and non-judgmental acceptance of the gender identity problem, which is not the result of the child's conscious choice, is important. | | | The parents' wish for a child of the other sex or direct parental pressure in rearing the child in the gender role opposite to the biological sex is not sufficient on its own to produce a marked gender identity disorder. |
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| | Intersections: Performing Sexual Identity: Naming and Resisting 'Gayness' in Modern Thailand |
| | In this paper, I will attend to the 'censorship' inherent[25] in the linguistic production of gender and sexuality in Thai social contexts by examining two critical events. | | | In her study of gender and sexuality in Thailand, Rosalind Morris found herself 'astounded by the plasticity and heterogeneity of Thai gender and sexual identity.'[49] Living in Thailand, I myself took note of two young male shop assistants who were wearing a brush of eye shadow. | | | The need to unravel sex, gender identity and gender roles, patterns of sexual behaviour and sexual meaning, and to move away from the confinement of binary gender categories is well-noted. |
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| | Sex - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Discordances between the biological and psychosocial levels, such as when the gender identity does not match the anatomic sex, or between the various psychosocial levels, such as when the gender role does not match the gender identity, are even more common but less well understood. | | | The degree to which a person's gender identity is affected by hormones, by genetic factors distinct from hormones, by early education, by social factors, and by "existential choice" remains imperfectly understood and a subject of contention. | | | However, for these people the relationships between biological factors (such as hormones) and environmental factors and the psychosocial levels of sexual identity such as gender identity and sexual orientation have proven to be complex, with plenty of exceptions to proposed theoretical systems. |
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| | Primacy and Influence: Gender Identity and Expression in Sexual - NTAC |
| | In this, their third edition of a core reference in the study of human gender identity and expression, two of the worldís leading feminist psychologists in experimental linguistic and social psychologies of women have critically and comprehensively analyzed gender theories and research. | | | Both the gender expressions and the gender roles attributed to sexual orientation and the actual expression and roles of a same-gender attraction are gender expression. | | | The viewer's horror lies in the recognition that this monstrous being is at the heart of his or her own identity, for it is all that must be ejected or abjected from self-image to make the bounded, category-obeying self possible. |
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| | Atypical gender role - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Gender role is a term used in the social sciences and humanities to denote a set of behavioral norms associated with a given gendered status (also called a gendered identity) in a given social group or system. | | | A person who has normal male genitalia and identifies himself as a man will usually take up a masculine gender role, a role in society that will be viewed by the other people in his society as a normal and expected kind of thing for a man to do. | | | But people who have unusual gender identities or sexual identities may be far less likely to take up a conventional gender role. |
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| | eMedicine - Sexuality: Gender Identity : Article by Shuvo Ghosh, MD |
| | However, physicians should remember that all individuals possess a gender identity and that the process of becoming aware of it is an important part of the psychosocial development of a child. | | | A thorough evaluation of gender identity, preferred gender role, and social interactions is needed to assess the patient. | | | The topic of gender identity is often discussed merely in terms of dysfunction, and the diagnosis of gender identity disorder is a known phenomenon in both children and adults. |
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| | Curriculum Resources/Demonstrations |
| | From such a perspective, the development of appropriate gender role identity is viewed as a failure-prone process; and, failure for men to achieve a masculine gender role identity is thought to result in homosexuality, negative attitudes towards women, or defensive hypermasculinity. | | | The Gender Role Strain paradigm, originally formulated by Joseph Pleck in The Myth of Masculinity (1981), is the forerunner, in the new psychology of men, of social constructionism, and of modern critical thinking about masculinity, having been formulated before social constructionism emerged as a new perspective on masculinity (Pleck, 1995). | | | In this paradigm, appropriate gender roles are determined by the prevailing gender ideology (which is operationally defined by gender role stereotypes and norms), and are imposed on the developing child by parents, teachers, and peers -- the cultural transmitters who subscribe to the prevailing gender ideology. |
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| | IJ TRANSGENDER - Gender Role Reversal among Postoperative Transsexuals |
| | Apart from the biographical data, special attention was given to: the development of (cross)gender identity and gender role (early and late onset), (the motives for) cross-dressing, the psycho-sexual development, body-satisfaction, present and past psychiatric history, the manifestation of the wish to undergo SRS, expectations towards the results of the SR process. | | | One person (MF) felt stable and confident in the new gender, one person felt in-between, and one person reported to have a fluctuating gender identity. | | | Gender role behavior and the verbal expression of regret are relevant dimensions. |
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| | FINDING THE KURDS A WAY: KURDISTAN AND THE DISCOURSE OF THE NATION-STATE |
| | This historical identity is problematic because of its emphasis on a specific origin (what about cultures who cannot trace their identity to ancient civilizations?), but it does provide context for the way Kurds identify with Kurdishness. | | | Their basic goals are to consider cultural identities without reference to "some distant or fantasized past," and to identify culture without essentializing--to recognize both "the historical construction of identity and the possibility that identity can be transformed in the future" (Peller, 1992, p. | | | His first move is to accept Kenneth Burke’s notion of identification (Burke, 1954, 1961); the idea that social identity occurs "prior to persuasion." He then posits that these identifications are rhetorical -- they are "discursive effects that induce human cooperation" (Charland, 1987, p. |
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| | Gender role - Free Encyclopedia |
| | A person's gender role is made up of all of the things a person does to express their gender identity. | | | Some of the gender signals that form part of a gender role and indicate one's gender identity to others are quite obvious, and others are so subtle that they are transmitted and received out of ordinary conscious awareness. | | | See also: Gender and sexuality studies, Gender studies, Gender identity, girly girl, Sexual orientation, Feminism, Masculinism, Symbolic-interactionism, Patriarchy, Queer theory,Butch, Femme. |
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| | Sexual identity - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The term sexual identity is used by psychologists and some recent writers in the general area of sexology to describe the gender or sex with which a person identifies, or is identified. | | | Much criticism has been raised against surgical reassignment until the individual is able to make an autonomous decision because the gender identity of the individual is generally more important to the individual than the technicalities of chromosomal sex, and even genitalia. | | | This article refers to sexual identity as used by sexologists, rather than to sexual orientation, sexual behaviour, gender identity, gender role or sex |
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| | VoS - Voice of the Shuttle |
| | In general, as an emerging interdisciplinary field, Queer Studies seeks to critique identity politics and destabilize notions of normative or essentialized sexuality and gender. | | | Gender and Sexuality ("page publishes texts which address gender studies and queer studies, with a particular focus upon discussions of sex, gender, sexual identity and sexuality in cultural practices") | | | gender Inn (bilingual German and English site; "searchable database providing access to over 8,300 records pertaining to feminist theory, feminist literary criticism and gender studies focusing on English and American literature") |
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| | Public Affairs U8500 |
| | Herek, Gregory M. On heterosexual masculinity: Some psychical consequences of the social construction of gender and sexuality. | | | First, we discuss the nature and quality of interpersonal relationships at work as a particularly poignant--and consequential--site for the expression of power asymmetries in gender, race, and sexual relations. | | | The purpose of this course is to expose students to critical perspectives on identity, focusing in particular on gender, race, and sexual identity, and to explore the implications of these perspectives for how we understand and think about creating workplaces that are both more equitable and more productive. |
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| | heteronormativity: Information From Answers.com |
| | This concept was formulated for use in the exploration and critique of the traditional norms of sex, gender identity, gender roles and sexuality, and of the social implications of those institutions. | | | do not develop a gender identity that corresponds to their body; in fact, several never develop a gender identity that is plainly male or female. | | | Thus, physical sex, gender identity, and gender roles should in any given person all align to either male or female norms, and heterosexuality is considered to be the only normal sexual orientation. |
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| | Why We're Gendered Beings...Theological Refelections on Sexual Identity by Gary W. Deddo, Ph.D. |
| | Relations between persons of the same gender cannot image in their sexual attraction or in any sexual behavior [8] the differentiation essential to the marital relations of a man and woman. | | | Non-erotic feelings and expression of affection between persons of the same gender are not being questioned here, even though there is a possibility that they to might possibly be occasion for the arousal and expression of erotic feelings and behavior. | | | Homosexuality then de-sexualizes and depersonalizes the partner by regarding their gender as morally and spiritual irrelevant.[9] The sexual dimension of the relationship is rendered a spiritually meaningless act.[10] The act is referred to as sexual only because the organs used are called sex organs. |
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