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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Gender system"”.
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Normalizing Violence Against Women: What Motivates People to Justify the Gender System?
… reactions to these victims, act to reinforce the gender system. The gender system is a network of practices meant to (1) differentiate men and women as two distinct categories and (2) organize and justify social inequalities based on these differences. People tend to react negatively if someone or …
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Grammatical Gender Representation and Processing in Advanced Second Language Learners of French
… French as a foreign language is mastering the gender system. Although there are theories that account for how French native speakers (NSs) master their gender system, it is not fully understood why second language (L2) learners are unable to do the same. The goal of the present study was to …
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The Queer Mummer
… of mummering, The Queer Mummer deconstructs gender norms and homophobic attitudes surrounding being openly queer. The Queer Mummer serves as reminder that mummering, itself, is a custom that queers space. Both drag and mummering are tools for the multi-vocal expression of identity, and both …
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Gender Stability and Change: The Differential Characterization of Men and Women in Popular Country Music from 1944 through 2012
… 2012. The study attempts to understand the gender system as theorized by Ridgeway using the analytic heuristics of cognitive sociologists and the methods of ethnographic content analysts. Findings include the various axes upon which women and men are differentially characterized over time …
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The Spaces Between: Non-Binary Representations of Gender in Twentieth-Century American Film
… intersections among discourses of feminism, transgender studies, queer theory, film studies, and social activist practice. I address the question of how transphobia as a set of beliefs and behaviors is illustrated in four late-twentieth-century films, three produced in America and one originally …
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"Redefining Gender Through the Arena of the Male Body: The Reception of Thomas's Tristan in the Old French ""Le Chevalier De La Charette"" and the Old Icelandic ""Saga Af Tristram Ok Isodd"
… he uses the experiences of Lancelot to define gender as purely performative. Tristram ok Isodd, on the other hand, models the masculinity of its hero on the gender system in the literary-historic sagas of Icelanders. While maleness in this genre is largely based on performance, it rests on a …
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Sexualidad adolescente y Tecnologías de la Información y la Comunicación: una experiencia en un instituto privado con Talleres Reflexivos
… globalization, consumerism and the hegemonic sex-gender system. Holding an annual external talk and eventual workshops within the school curriculum are not enough to remove patriarchal prejudices and inequalities, although there is an increase in the relationship of sexuality with affectivity and …
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Transitional subjects: gender, race, and the politics of temporality
… philosophy, feminist and queer theory, and transgender studies. Despite their related genealogies, these theoretical frameworks often give different accounts of the claim to an essential or real identity, as well as the relationship between identity, embodiment, and power more broadly. I argue …
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Buried Alive: Gothic Oppression in the Novels of Edith Wharton'
… of normalizing discourses surrounding gender, class, and sexuality through her employment of Gothic conventions. Her use of the Gothic differs from other women writers in that she does not simply critique domesticity. Instead, Wharton's Gothic is an indictment of an entire system and …
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A Corpus-Assisted Critical Discourse Analysis on Transgender Athletes in the English News Media
… thesis studies present-day discourses on transgender athletes in the English news media. It defines discourses as linguistic activities as well as social practices that are in a dialectic relationship with the material world. Discourses are seen as powerful tools for spreading ideologies, and …
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With Cordelia in His Arms: The Impact of Gender Roles in Shakespeare's King Lear
… themes directly pointed toward a discussion of gender, Shakespeare reflects Renaissance society's fear of gender reversals and, as such, must kill off what could be the play's most virtuous character. Through a study of both general gender studies and Shakespearean criticism, I plan to explore …
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"""Chopsticks Only Work in Pairs"": Gender Unity and Gender Equality Among the Lahu of Southwest China"
… I explore in this dissertation the ways in which gender unity is constructed as a master motif---as encapsulated in the Lahu metaphor, ""chopsticks only work in pairs""---that fosters gender equality and that prevails in ideological, institutional, and practical domains alike among the Lahu. …
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Evaluating gender in retail servicescapes: Beyond the heteronormative binary approach
For consumers who view gender and sexual orientation as fluid concepts, navigating and interpreting in-store atmospherics is a crucial step in their process of reaffirming gender identity, exploring their self-expression, and finding ways of fitting in. A non-binary individual who prefers a more …
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An investigation into the construction(s) and representation(s) of masculinity(ies) and femininity(ies) in 1 Corinthians
… SRI as an interpretive analytics combined with a gender-critical hermeneutical optic I have traced out some of the ways in which gender is constituted and performed in the discourse of 1 Corinthians. I demonstrate that normative and normalising engendering is operative in the text and that the …
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The psychological impact of perceiving the gender status quo as legitimate
… Overall, these findings suggest that belief systems supporting the status quo can provide a palliative psychological effect through impacting people’s beliefs about whether they are targets of discrimination, and that this can occur for members of both advantaged and disadvantaged groups. …
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Queer Tropical Frames: New Representations of Queerness in Contemporary Latin American Cinema
… and theoretical articulations on sexuality and gender from the region to interrogate its own queer visual culture. Acknowledging the continent and its cinema as a locus of knowledge production, I leverage regional models of non-normative sexualities and gender developed by thinkers from Latin …
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Structural Sexism and Health in the United States
… health. Consistent with contemporary theories of gender as a multilevel social system, I conceptualize and measure structural sexism as systematic gender inequality in power and resources at the macro-level (U.S. state), meso-level (marital dyad), and micro-level (individual). Through a series of …
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Visualising the Transexual Self: Photography, Strategies, and Identities
… the role of the visual world in negotiations of gender, selfimage, the body, and the social domain, and the impact this has on the visualisation of transsexual gender identities. These issues are brought into sharp analytical focus through the personal experiences of transsexual people. The …
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Ab-normal Athletes: Technomedical Productions of Gender, Sports, Fairness, and Doping
… sites for the production and reproduction of gender in sports. Such labs have, over time, constructed a multiplicity of gender categories through which to view and assess doping practice, but nevertheless, they consistently work hard to reproduce binary, hegemonic sex and gender categories. As …
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L2 gender facilitation and inhibition in spoken word recognition
… investigates the role of grammatical gender facilitation and inhibition in second language (L2) learners' spoken word recognition. Native speakers of languages that have grammatical gender are sensitive to gender marking when hearing and recognizing a word. Gender facilitation refers …
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