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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Cross-gender"”.
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Gender Role Orientation in Same- and Cross-Gender Friendships
… the relationship between individuals' gender-role orientations and the strength and rewardingness of their friendships. The study was guided by a series of questions centered around the assumption that androgynous individuals exhibit greater behavioral flexibility from one situation to …
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Re-Producing Shakespeare, Engendering Anxiety: Women's Cross -Gender Performance and British National Identity
… develops a model for reading women's cross-gender performances of Shakespeare, and the ensuing chapters analyze four representative productions. Chapter Two, ""The King's Many Bodies,"" looks at Fiona Shaw's 1995--96 performance as Richard II. Her interpretation expanded Ernst …
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Peer, Home, and School Achievement: A Study in Achievement Motivation (Virgin Islands, Grade Five, Caribbean)
… to which home, peer, and school factors relate cross-gender to differential achievement patterns among fifth-grade students, particularly the degree of relationship between self-concept of ability and achievement, and between area-specific (peer, home, and school) achievement motivation and …
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“All Men Are Created Equal?”: Insights and Implications of Intersectional Precarious Manhood
… theory that explores the social category of gender (men/manhood/masculinity) as relates to identity threat. PMT posits that manhood is rooted in the common cultural belief that boys earn their manhood through social efforts that exhibit significant power, strength, and endurance (Gilmore, …
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Characteristics of Mentor Relationships in Male and Female University Professors
… in graduate school, and whether they had same-gender or cross-gender relationships. The study assessed the characteristics and functions of mentoring relationships, and sought to determine whether graduate school mentoring was associated with differences in productivity, professional …
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An exploration of the lived social, emotional, and academic experiences of obese adolescents within three conceptual frameworks using mixed methods research
… The quantitative data was analyzed through cross gender and grade level comparisons. Results indicated both female and male students in middle school and high school have a slightly positive attitude toward obese students. During phase two, qualitative data was collected through focus groups …
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Accounting for transsexualism
… transsexual subjects, most of whom attended the Gender Identity Clinic at Charing Cross Hospital (Fulham). A review of the literature covers cross gender behaviour in other societies, recent biological, social and psychological studies on gendered and cross gendered behaviour, a medical history …
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The influence of gender role ideology on developmental trajectories of dismissive attitudes towards sexual harassment in early adolescence
… school personnel as a natural characteristic of cross-gender interactions in adolescence. This study highlights the gendered nature of sexual harassment in adolescence by examining the longitudinal association between socially constructed gender role ideologies and dismissive attitudes toward …
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The Implications of Increased Female Representation on Iowa School Boards for Educational Policy Making
… and chi-square analysis was applied by gender on each sub-variable studied. Findings. There were significant differences in the backgrounds, motivation for candidacy, governance styles and priorities of male and female school board members. Background differences were in the areas of …
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Exceptional queerness: defining the boundaries of normative U.S. citizenship, 1876-1936
… by a predilection toward masculinity and cross-dressing. Previous scholarship has argued that sexological texts were immensely influential in shaping popular understandings of gender and sexual normativity, and that the mass circulation press had embraced the sexological figure of the …
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Reader as woman: gender and identification in novels
… as its title suggests, is a study of gender and identification. The main body of the thesis is s consideration of four novels (Clarissa, The Scarlet Letter, Portrait of a Lady, and Tess of the d'Urbervilles), all of which are centered around a heroine defined by her suffering. In the …
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Voices of Jim Crow: Early Urban African American English in the Segregated South
… data are used for inter-generational analyses, cross-gender analyses, analyses of socioeconomic factors and overall interpretation for each individual site and between different sites. </p><p>These data contribute to the continuing study and scholarship on the historical development of African …
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A critical analysis of men's constructions of paying for sex: doing gender, doing race in the interview context
… intersecting social identities, such as their gender, sexuality, race, and class. Indepth interviews were conducted with 43 men who identified as clients of sex workers, through face-to-face, Skype video call or instant messenger interviews. This study is designed to contribute methodologically …
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Chinese and Australian conversational styles: A comparative sociolinguistic study of overlap and listener response
… theme of the thesis is to examine the role of gender in the use of overlap and listener response in conversations of the two languages. The study is based upon the theoretical premise of interactional sociolinguistics that different cultural groups may have different rules for participation and …