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Showing 1 to 20 of 42 for “"gender binary"”.
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Transmission: Premium Television Characters Outside of the Gender Binary
… that blur the traditional male-or-female gender divide. The basics of queer theory (sex, gender, orientation, and transgender) and critical/cultural studies (encoding, decoding, and reading a text) are explained as a basis for the analysis of the characters, which seeks to answer the …
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Automatic Gender Binary Beliefs and their Role in Gender Inequality
The social construction of gender-as-binary plays an increasingly central role within gender equality research and activism. Despite its importance, however, there remain few empirical tools for assessing binarist beliefs, practices, or behaviours at the individual level. This thesis sought to …
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Investigating trait attribution through gendered avatar play: An analysis of the sims 3
… Sims 3</em>, enables the deconstruction of the gender binary. <em>The Sims 3</em> permits its players the capability to attribute similar traits to male or female avatars. In doing so, players can experiment with taboo trait attributions and potentially defy a male-female binary. A group of 82 …
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Educating Queerness: An Exploration of Identity Construction Through the Schooling Experiences of Transgender and Non Binary Adults
<p>Transgender people and youth have been disproportionately denied their civil and human rights in educational and societal institutions. At the foundation of these actions and legislations that deny transgender people their rights is the rooted belief in the gender binary as a naturally …
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Gender (in)Query: Young Adults Learning, Unlearning, and Relearning Gender in a Queer Majority Space
… heterosexuality. Consequently, sexuality and gender are linked inextricably as heterosexuality relies on the gender binary and the gender binary relies on heterosexuality. Via gender, queer, and situated learning theories this qualitative study decouples such mutual reinforcement to explore …
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Re(born) this way
… standard and often works to reinforce the gender binary rather than destabilize it. Documentaries probing into trans lives utilize this framework to portray a relatively non-threatening and narrow reading of trans identity. In analyzing three televised documentaries, 20/20’s My Secret Self: …
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The Personal Is Political: Promoting Empathy Through the Exchange of Personal Narratives About Gender Towards Social Change
… increase empathic understanding around issues of gender. Scholarship on gender suggests that the socially constructed gender binary promotes essentialism and limiting hegemonic norms as well as mythologizing the perceived innate differences that separate us by gender. This paper explores the …
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Breaking heterosoc, making a queerworld: using a queer directorial aesthetic to re-envision Hedda Gabler
… the heterosexual matrix (built on a rigid gender binary) and the nuclear family are posited as the crux of heteronormativity, which is the assumption and expectation that subjects are heterosexual.
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Sistema prisional e transgêneros no Brasil: um debate necessário
… to reflect the problems in detention of transgender people in Brazil. For this purpose, initially, we face the difficulties of classification and determination of the object of study. This fact highlights the importance of analyzing the phenomenon of the gender binary pattern, emphasizing the …
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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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Barriers and Facilitators of Physical Activity for Gender Diverse Persons
BACKGROUND: Gender Diverse persons face pervasive discrimination and worse health outcomes compared to their cisgender peers. Physical activity, being highly influential of health, is an opportune area to improve health in the gender diverse population, though gender diverse persons face …
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Debunking the false dichotomy: Developing and applying trans quantcrit at the intersection of trans/non-binary identities and religious, secular, and spiritual engagement in college
… towards people who identify as trans/non-binary (NB) is still extremely well documented and pervasive across many different demographics. Discussions on religious, secular, or spiritual (RSS) identities and trans/NB identities are often fraught with difficult conflicts between the two. In …
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Getting Ready and Getting Unready: How Queer College Women Navigate Their Casual Sexual Experiences
… for many young adults, students across gender and sexual identities engage with these experiences in both similar and unique ways. Data for this study came from twelve semi-structured interviews with undergraduate and graduate college-attending queer students. These data were analyzed …
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(Trans)forming the Binary: An Archive of Gender Affect
For many, the gender binary is an experience of tyrannical and oppressive force upheld by the patriarchal and heteronormative power structures enmeshed in the built environment. Through investigation of the complex feedback relationship between our bodies and the social and physical landscapes in …
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Gender Minorities in GBMSM Sexual Health: Client Interpersonal Communication Experiences
There is a dearth of knowledge in transgender communication studies about the interpersonal communication experiences of transgender, nonbinary, genderqueer, intersex, gender diverse (TNBGQIGD) and Two-Spirit people accessing gay, bisexual, and men who have sex with men (GBMSM) sexual health and …
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A Distillation of Resilience: Female Masculinity in Form
… valuable category well beyond the borders of the gender binary. In this research, I pay careful attention to the construction of language around gender identities, and the ways in which female masculine identity has been dislodged from the category of trans identity. This research will shed light …
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Being my true self: An existential phenomenological inquiry into how transition influences identity in trans men
… of trans people presenting for referral to Gender Identity Clinics has increased in recent years, with wait times standing at up to four years from the point of referral. Options for those waiting to be seen, who may also be experiencing mental distress, gender dysphoria and related anxiety …
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New materialism and gender - (re) configuring human and robotic embodiment
Dominant understandings of sex, gender and sexuality align with patriarchal ideology that maintains misogyny, sexism and male supremacy. A critical feature of the aforementioned gender paradigm is strict mutually exclusive binarism and essentialism. By taking a queer feminist perspective on gender …
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Wearing Yourself or Dressing the Part: Navigating Workplace Dress Codes as Queer, Androgynous Women
… dress code expectations emphasize dichotomous gender norms, and notions of white femininity. Participants’ narratives suggest that rigid dress codes reinforce heterosexist dynamics in the work place, and contribute to the ‘othering’ of queer, androgynous women who do not ‘fit in’ to the status …
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