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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"identity and gender"”.
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Aggression: Relationships with Sex, Gender Role Identity, and Gender Role Stress.
<p>Sex, gender-role identity, and gender-role stress were assessed in terms of their relationship to observed gender differences in self-reported aggression. Physical and verbal aggression were explored, as well as the affective component of anger and cognitive component of hostility. The role of …
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Consociationalism and equality within the European Union: a socio-legal study of community identity and gender in Northern Ireland and Belgium
… design for the management of diversity and division, is widely criticised for placing attention on those group identities which epitomise the divisions in a particular place, at the expense of other identities which are rendered as secondary. This thesis takes a socio-legal approach to …
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Behavioural evidence for the perception of individual identity and gender via the echolocation calls of a high duty cycle bat, Rhinolophus clivosus
… when echolocation calls of a different gender or individual were played to the habituation. Strong individual and gender signatures but weak geographic signatures were found in both the CF and FM components of their echolocation calls. In the individual discrimination trials reactions …
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Intersections of agency, identity and gender: Exploring the experiences, needs, and aspirations of Malawian women in blesser relationships and their links to mental, sexual and reproductive health
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2026-12-01
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Inequities in access to mental health care at intersections of race/ethnicity, gender identity, and gender modality: An application of Multilevel Analysis of Individual Heterogeneity and Discriminatory Accuracy (MAIHDA)
Transgender populations, and particularly transgender women of color, are burdened by high rates of both mental illness and healthcare avoidance. Despite this, research examining the patterns of non-use of mental healthcare within this community is lacking, and has further suffered due to the …
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Literature for girls and the preadolescent novel: a historical analysis and recommendations for challenging the status quo
… has long been an influential historical, social and cultural discursive site of gender identity and gender appropriate behavior. Currently, there is great deal of research and analysis of children’s literature and young adult fiction, examining literature’s role in children’s and young adults’ …
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The Social Construction of Rural Lesbian Identities
… women who possessed same-sex desires and lived in rural areas in Kentucky, Tennessee and Southern Illinois. The women in the study had constructed these desires with various labels including "gay," "lesbian," "queer," "bisexual," or preferred no label. Each of the participants talked …
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The latent manifest : Roe v. Wade and the rhetoric of maternal citizenship.
… through the entrenched connection between woman and mother. I begin with a brief overview of scholarly treatments of citizenship, identity, and gender in rhetorical criticism. While rhetorical critics have attended to citizenship in the nineteenth century through analysis of the gendered public …
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Vignettes for educating the non-Arab non-Muslim reader : subversion and survival of Hakawati figures
… American authors use to forge empathetic bonds and create community among Arab American and non-Arab and non-Muslim readers. These diverse texts—ranging from memoirs and novels to comic books and ethnographic studies—illustrate Arab Americans’ struggles and successes in post-World War II …
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Invisible Scarlet O'Neil and the Whitman Authorized Editions for Girls: Homefront Representations of the American Feminine and the Feminine Heroic During World War II
… been done concerning the intertwining of propaganda imperatives and adult popular fiction, this dissertation helps bridge the literature gap between propaganda studies and children's popular fiction. Further, the cultural definitions and uses of Denning (1987), Cawelti (1976), and Wright (2001) …
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Bestial rooms : a work of prose fiction
… to piece together her own past through stories and letters written to her infant daughter. Particular emphasis is placed on the way the narrator's faltering memory figures and disfigures her sense of physical identity and gender, and also on issues surrounding the subjectification and …
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A Phenomenological Study of Acceptability of Preexposure Prophylaxis Therapy within the Lived Experiences of HIV Negative Male-to-Female Transgender Young Adults
The male-to-female transgender (MtF-TG) are individuals assigned a male gender at birth but self identify as female. MtF-TG young adults experience discrimination, stigmatization, isolation, and homelessness as a result of gender identity and gender expression. The transgender populations are …
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Transgender Digital Embodiments: Questions of the Transgender Body in the 21st Century
… at an intra-community discourse in the transgender community between “transtrenders” and “transmedicalists” or “truscum.” It observes how these different sub-communities conceive of what it means to be transgender and attempts to contextualize these conceptions within transgender history. …
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LGBTQ Experiences with the Courts: The Role of Gender Nonconformity and Assertiveness
<p>Using lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) and non-LGBTQ participants, a pair of studies explored the influence of LGBTQ identity and gender nonconformity (GNC) in experiences of discrimination in court settings. A one-way ANOVA tested whether LGBTQ participants were more …
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The dream of a madman : constructing the male opera singer in nineteenth-century Britain
… ideas about music, performance, national identity, and gender. It was an art form that was seen as both foreign and effeminate – a profession for Italians, and not Englishmen. Nevertheless, over the course of the long nineteenth century, a handful of British men succeeded in clawing their …
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Outside and Inside: Representations of Interracialism and American Identity in White Jazz Autobiography
… dissertation explores concepts of race, national identity, and gender formation in fifteen autobiographies published by white male American jazz musicians— that is, jazz autobiographies written by male subjects who self-identified, and were identified by their collaborators and by the general …
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Physics Education: Understanding the Barriers for Young Women in Ontario
… as a field of science is failing to recruit and retain women. This phenomenon is believed to relate to girls’ educational experiences from K-12, but the reasons for the gender gap in physics are not fully understood. The purpose of this phenomenological research is to explore and understand …
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Invisible Scarlet O'neil and the Whitman authorized editions for girls: homefront representations of the american feminine and the feminine heroic during World War II
… in the United States during World War II and the ways in which a set of mass market series books for girls participated in and reflected the persuasive campaigns of government, private industry, and mass media to script feminine roles and behaviors in the United States during and shortly …
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