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Showing 1 to 20 of 41 for “"gender expression"”.
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Gender expression varies within diverse gender identities in adolescents and adults
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2026-12-01
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(Dis)entangling Gender Expression and Race in Antigay Discrimination: An Intersectional Approach
… (LGBQ) individuals as a response to their same-gender sexual orientations and not other factors. Because an individual’s sexual orientation is always understood through racialized hegemonic gender ideologies, however, attention to gender expression – how one “does” gender – and dynamics of race …
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Restorative circles and gender expression in three North American middle school environments
… objective was to further an understanding of how gendered power dynamics interact with, and are affected by, restorative approaches. I propose this lens through which to view the development of restorative programs to account for possible intersections of power dynamics with gender (as well as …
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Development and validation of the Comfort and Conformity of Gender Expression Scale (CAGES)
Gender roles and stereotypes have been shown to be deeply entrenched across race, class, age and location (Bem, 1993). Gender has been a focus of psychological measurement since the early 20th century (Terman & Miles, 1936). The Comfort and Conformity of Gender Expression Scale (CAGES) was …
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(Hu)man enough: Design interventions for facilitating familial conversations about masculine gender expression
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2025-12-01
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Beyond the binary: Development of the gender expression multidimensional inventory for queer women and queer assigned female at birth individuals
This study aimed to create an inventory of gender expression for queer women and QAFAB (queer assigned female at birth) individuals that can assess this construct beyond a binary, masculine and feminine, presentation. The literature provides evidence that gender expression is experienced beyond our …
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Models for Investigating the Biology of Sexual Differentiation
… understanding of inter-individual differences in gender expression, examining biological markers of prenatal hormone exposure, genetics, and immune factors among a non-clinical sample of children. The results of Study 2 demonstrated that these markers are useful in predicting subtle …
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What a Drag! Censorship and the Criminalization of Alternative Gender Performance
… censorship laws targeting drag performance and gender expression reflects a broader political and ideological effort to regulate LGBTQIA+ visibility and reinforce heteronormative norms. These laws, often justified under child protection rhetoric and morality-based policymaking, rely on vague …
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An exploration of the sense of school belonging, connectedness and life satisfaction of students from a residential high ability high school, differentiated by sexual orientation and gender identity
… of high ability and sexual orientation and/or gender identity/gender expression, particularly as it pertains to school belonging and overall life satisfaction. Using Self Determination Theory (Deci and Ryan, 2008) as a framework, this study presents an examination of high ability students’ …
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Associations of Sex, Gender, and Gender Role Beliefs with Mental Health Attitudes
… toward mental healthcare seeking in regards to gender, age, race, and profession. This study aimed to look at traditional gender role beliefs, sex, and gender expression as predictors of individual’s mental health attitudes and individual’s views of mental health norms. Using a cross-sectional …
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Her Body Breathes Into Mine
… than sexuality. Love, sex, loss, sexuality and gender expression are themes that bind these poems.</p>
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Navigating the fat queer body: the impact of cultural discourses on identity construction and belonging
… impact fat queer people's experience with their gender expression. A thematic and discourse analysis of fat queer people's personal narratives shows that fat queer people are impacted by how others view their gender, that finding community can create space for new imaginings of their bodies, and …
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Gender roles, homophobia, and the closet: Experiences of queer women
… is a part of sets expectations based on their gender. This paper explores how the relationship between prescribed gender roles, internalized homophobia, and coming out of the closet are related. A focus group of seven women who identified as lesbian, gay, bisexual, pansexual, and queer was …
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Perceptions of criminalization towards sex education among a generational sample of Canadian Pakistani Muslims
… the provincial sex education curriculum, such as gender expression and same-sex relationship dialogue. These revisions led to intense debate of sex education in Ontario. At the forefront of these protests were South Asians, specifically those of Muslim descent belonging to the Pakistani community. …
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Girlie Girls Aren’t “Real” Athletes: A Critical Examination of Girls’ Experiences of Aesthetic Sports within a Post-Feminist Masquerade
… school environment, 2) Framing success through gendered and neoliberal discourses, and 3) Constructing an ideal image. Moreover, the major themes resulted in the culmination of experiences leading to the core theme “Falling short of the neoliberal ideal.” The study highlights the need for …
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Differences in Performance in Mental Rotation and Short-Term Free Recall in Gender Minorities
… short-term free recall, state anxiety, and gender expression through masculinity and femininity. This study addressed gaps in literature examining gender differences in gender minority groups by investigating gender differences in two tasks: mental rotation and short-term recall. …
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Made in Machismo: Discovering Gender Patterns in Migration Process
Individuals experience gender uniquely, shaped both by their internal sense of self and external influences from societal institutions such as education, family, religion, government, and economy. Gender impacts one's self-perception, societal treatment, and life roles. The textbook definition of …
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A Practice-as-Research Project utilizing Butler’s (1990) Feminist/ Post-structuralist theory of Gender Performativity, as well as Connells (2001) system of Hegemony, Complicity, and Subordination to Interrogate the Formation of Toxic Masculinities through Practice-as-Research and Live Art Methodologies
… toxic masculinity? Although the possibility for gender expression is increasingly becoming more available, Western socio- cultural pressures to construct the male gender identity towards a traditionally heteronormative masculinity remains relatively the same. This project seeks to discover how my …
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(IL)Legitimate Problems: Instances of Queer Familial Creation and the Reinforcement of Patriarchal Structure in Eighteenth-Century British Literature
… threat that female appropriation of masculine gender expression and male sexual agency pose to patriarchal power structure. The second chapter explores the sapphic initiation of Fanny Hill into the phallocentric world of prostitution and the subordination of female sexual agency to the sexual …
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Outside gaymers: queerness, and race in online gaming culture in South Africa
… with their identities, sexualities and gender. It therefore focuses on how South African queer youth make use of virtual spaces to explore their identities and gender expressions. I ask what experimentation and expression look like in online worlds with their assumed endless …
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