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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Gender identity; Sex role;"”.
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Psychological gender : the relationship between sex-role and gender identity
… on psychoanalytic theory of the development of gender identity. The basic premise is that there are at least two levels of gender-related identity, viz. gender identity and sex-role. Thirty-three male and thirty-nine female university students participated in the study. They were asked to …
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Analyzing how we think about gender: Reevaluating the categories of transgender and cisgender in society
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Gender role development in early versus late adolescence
<p>Gender roles have been a subject that has been explored through the years. Previous research looked mainly on gender roles and childhood. In the present research, a different outlook of gender roles in adolescence was investigated. This research looked at a sample of 126 middle school and high …
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Physician Couples: A Qualitative Inquiry Focused on Gendered Power and Marital Equality
<p>How couples “do” gender and power in their marriages is a relevant topic for today’s couples. Despite social changes toward equality in many realms, gender continues to organize relationships in ways that give husbands more power than wives. However, some contemporary couples make conscious …
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Exploring Factors in the Relationship Balance Assessment
<p>While studies have highlighted the role of gendered power in relationships, many assumptions have not been quantitatively tested due to a lack of measures for power. This study uses exploratory factor analysis to construct a dyadic assessment of relative power and equality in relationships. This …
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Voices from the Killing Jar
… paper concludes with an examination of my dual role as a composer and performer in this piece and in my work in general, and with a brief discussion of social and gender-theoretical issues that inform my work as a female composer.
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Interactions between Female Impersonators and Tipping Audience Members: Heteronormativity and Techniques
… drag reinforces or transgresses traditional gender roles. Little research has focused on the interactions between drag entertainers and their audiences. Based upon observational data and in-depth interview data, this study examines the tipping interactions that occur between an audience …
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Gender, Ethnicity, and Physics Education: Understanding How Black Women Build Their Identities as Scientists
… an analysis of the relationships between race, gender, and those with careers in the sciences, focusing on the lived experiences of Black women physicists, as viewed through the lens of women scientists in the United States. Although the research is geographically localized, the base-line …
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Reproductive Politics, Religion and State Governance in the Philippines
… questions about citizenship, the state, national identity, class and gender. In a post-colonial context such as the Philippines, where a particular historical relationship between the Church and the state has developed, policymaking on reproduction, sexuality and health answers to both development …
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The Roots of Feminist Invocations in Post-Revolutionary Iran
… way in which each regime sought to impart its gender ideology to young girls. The eradication of coeducation and institution of single-sex schooling at the pre-university level is investigated as a factor in combating the constraints imposed by patriarchal laws on the female population. The …
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Women, Violence, and the "Arab Question" in Early Zionist Literature
… I demonstrate that Zionist motions of race and gender developed in an intertwined manner as writers imagined the future of Jewish-Arab relations in Palestine. Moreover, while scholarly treatments of gender in the yishuv have thus far largely concentrated on questions of masculinity, I show how …
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Whistling in the Wind: Examining the Effects of Sexual Orientation Relational Demography on Individual Perceptions of Workgroup Process and Withdrawal
… the relationship between perceived workgroup sexual orientation dissimilarity and participant perceptions of group process and withdrawal. Based on the theory of relational demography within groups (Riordan, 2000) and recent research on moderators of the dissimilarity-outcome relationship …
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Gender Difference Variables Predicting Expertise in Lecture Note-taking
… in class. Research suggests that there may be gender differences in note-taking and test taking. However, previous research on lecture note-taking has only examined gender differences, or used gender as an anecdotal variable, in post-hoc analyses. This is the first dissertation to investigate …
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Genealogies of feminism : leftist feminist subjectivity in the wake of the Islamic revival in contemporary Morocco
This dissertation is an ethnographic and genealogical study of leftist feminist subjectivity in the wake of the Islamic Revival in contemporary Morocco. It draws on two years (2004-2006) of field research amongst founding members of the Moroccan feminist movement whose activism emerged out of their …
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Body Image : Gender Subtexts in the Popular Print Media Available in South Africa at the beginning of the 21st Century
… I present the results of an analysis of the role of female body image in the promotion of commercial products in magazines that are available in South Africa at the beginning of the 21st century. The South African legislation is progressive towards promoting gender equality. But the central …
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Queer Things: Victorian Objects and the Fashioning of Homosexuality
"Queer Things" takes the connections between homosexuality and materiality, and those between literary texts and cultural objects, as major repositories of queer history. It scrutinizes the objects that circulate within the works of Oscar Wilde as well as in the output of high fashion designers and …
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Essays on Fertility and Sex Ratios in India
… have experienced a rapid increase in their sex ratios at birth. This dissertation examines the causes and consequences of these imbalances in the Indian context. Lower desired fertility can translate into more male-biased sex ratios if son preference remains strong, especially with greater …
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Essays on Gender Differences in Educational and Labor Market Outcomes
… Census Data. The third chapter focuses on the role of discrimination and the possibility that education as a tool to reveal ability is more important among women than men. As social networks tend to run along gender lines and managers in the labor market are predominantly male, it may be more …