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Parasuicide, Gender, and Gender Deviance

Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 1983
The hypotheses that gender-role nonconformity during childhood is associated with social isolation, which in turn is related to subsequent suicidal feelings and attempts, were tested. These ideas were explored in a four-group sample of homosexual and heterosexual men and women living in San Francisco.
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Gender difference and gender disadvantage

Journal of Women, Politics & Policy, 1990
This paper explores the theoretical foundations of American sex discrimination law. Traditional legal frameworks have analyzed gender issues in terms of gender difference. Yet, inder this approach, sex-based differences have been both overlooked and overvalued.
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The process of gendering: gender as a verb

Trends in Cognitive Sciences
Gender is important to the social and cognitive sciences, as evidenced by hundreds of meta-analyses, thousands of studies, and millions of datapoints that examine how gender (as an independent variable) shapes cognition and behavior. In this expansive literature, gender is often understood as a noun - a social category that separates 'men' from 'women'.
Ashley E. Martin, Michael L. Slepian
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GENDER DILEMMAS, GENDER QUESTIONS, AND THE GENDER MANTRA

Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 1991
This paper discusses the social constructions of gender and the problematic effects of these constructions‐masculine/feminie‐on intimate attachments. It summarizes the aspect of feminist scholarship which revised the traditional developmental paradigm to include a psychology of women and cites recent infant research which re‐describes development as a ...
Marcia Sheinberg, Peggy Penn
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Negotiating Gender: Gender Narratives and Gender Identities

2012
Gender at the Hope in New York City is the focus of this chapter. Eglinton argues that young people used visual material culture (VMC) to make sense of, negotiate, and perform local masculinities and femininities. The author brings in Bruner’s (Acts of meaning.Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1990) ‘narratives’, which she conceives as gender models
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Gender and Parenthood

American Sociological Review, 1984
This chapter examines several demographic trends relevant to parenthood in individual lives and to the social ambiance surrounding childbearing and rearing in contemporary society. A good starting place for understanding change in gender and parenting roles is several demographic trends: Longevity and the sex ration, marriage and fertility, and ...
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Gender and Gender Roles

2012
AbstractThis article addresses how the current understandings of gender and gender roles have arisen, before investigating the possibilities for how it might be interpreted and understood through the archaeological evidence available today. The apparent gender division within early Anglo-Saxon burial archaeology arises from the inclusion of distinct ...
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Gender/Gender Identity/Gender Expression

2021
Adam W.J. Davies, Rhea Ashley Hoskin
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Gender and Gendered Language

Abstract Gender is a linguistic construct that pervades all human societies. Constructions of gender and evaluations of gendered language are shaped by various prejudices. Some of these are internal to language, such as the constraints of grammatical gender and pronominal systems, others play out in the social realm, such as ...
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Gendered and Gendering Parties

2006
In order to contextualize the Brazilian and Chilean cases, this chapter surveys the various ways in which Latin America’s political parties have shaped the two interlinked dependent variables of this study: women’s political participation and the formation of state gender policy.
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