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Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 Authors have empirically evidenced that cultural stereotypes influence gender-typed behavior. With the present work, we have added to this literature by demonstrating that gender roles can explain sex differences in risk-taking, a stereotypically ...
Laura Villanueva-Moya +1 more
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Hot right now: Diverse girls navigating technologies of racialized sexy femininity
Feminism and Psychology, 2018 In this paper, we draw upon group interviews in London and New York City to explore how differently classed and racialized groups of teen girls navigate media constructions of hot, sexy, femininity. We explore how cultural ideals of sexiness are shifting
J. Ringrose, D. Tolman, M. Ragonese
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Poligramas, 2020 This article aims to investigate how the concept of femininity is represented in Roberto Bolaño's short narrative. To this end, Claraand Vida de Anne Moore, stories that make up the book Llamadas Telefónicas, published by Anagrama in 1997 ...
Alejandro Alzate
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Unequal Representations: Analyzing Intersectional Biases in Word Embeddings Using Representational Similarity Analysis [PDF]
arXiv, 2020 We present a new approach for detecting human-like social biases in word embeddings using representational similarity analysis. Specifically, we probe contextualized and non-contextualized embeddings for evidence of intersectional biases against Black women.
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Female Facial Appearance and Health
Evolutionary Psychology, 2012 The current study addressed whether rated femininity, attractiveness, and health in female faces are associated with numerous indices of self-reported health history (number of colds/stomach bugs/frequency of antibiotic use) in a sample of 105 females ...
Alan W. Gray, Lynda G. Boothroyd
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Femininity, science, and the denigration of the girly girl
, 2017 Hyper-femininity and the construction of the ‘girly girl’ label have been documented widely, but there has been less attention to their content (or any distinctions between these constructs).
B. Francis +4 more
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Grammatical Gender, Neo-Whorfianism, and Word Embeddings: A Data-Driven Approach to Linguistic Relativity [PDF]
arXiv, 2019 The relation between language and thought has occupied linguists for at least a century. Neo-Whorfianism, a weak version of the controversial Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, holds that our thoughts are subtly influenced by the grammatical structures of our native language.
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A Male Transformation into a Female Character on the Noh Stage
Asian Studies, 2015 Femininity and the feminine figure itself in Noh theatre plays an important role, though nowadays the interpreter is fundamentally masculine. The central aim of impersonating feminine roles by masculine performers, and therefore creating the masculine ...
Violetta BRAZHNIKOVA TSYBIZOVA
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Social Inquiry into Well-BeingThis article examines the results of research on the relationship between the tendency towards various addictions and masculinity/femininity as gender characteristics of the individual.
Iryna Pospelova
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'Pink Gloves Still Give Black Eyes': exploring 'alternative' femininity in women's combat sports
, 2017 This article considers the gendered significance of women’s participation in combat sports, with a specific focus on the performances of femininity by female combat athletes.
A. Channon, Catherine Phipps
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