Reluctant gatekeepers: ‘Trans-positive’ practitioners and the social construction of sex and gender

2012 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 387-400 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaye Cee Whitehead ◽  
Jennifer Thomas ◽  
Bradley Forkner ◽  
Dana LaMonica
Keyword(s):  
Social Construction ◽  
Sex And Gender ◽  
The Social ◽  
And Gender

scholarly journals Social representations of sex and gender among trans people

2017 ◽  
Vol 70 (6) ◽  
pp. 1235-1243 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaime Alonso Caravaca Morera ◽  
Maria Itayra Padilha
Keyword(s):  
Social Construction ◽  
Life Histories ◽  
Social Representations ◽  
Social Constructions ◽  
Sex And Gender ◽  
Descriptive Research ◽  
Trans People ◽  
The Social ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Cognitive Construct

ABSTRACT Objective: To analyze the social representations of sex and gender among transsexual people, through their life histories. Method: Qualitative, multicenter and descriptive research. The participants were 70 transsexuals from Brazil and Costa Rica. Data were analyzed according to the technique of Content Analysis. Results: Two complementary representations related to sex were identified: “Sex as a natural categorical imposition sealed and acquired (irremediably) at birth” and “Sex as an element that labels, condemns and differentiates people.” Regarding gender, a single representation was associated with “synthetic-social constructions associated with (necro/bio) power, cisnormativity and culture.” Final considerations: The former absolute division of gender as social construction and of sex as considered as natural must be questioned in order to analyze both concepts as an interconnected dyad. In addition, it should be recognized that this dyad presents itself as an organizational and cognitive construct, mediated by the still prevalent cispatriarchal (necro/bio) power.

Transsexualism in Medicolegal Limine: An Examination and a Proposal for Change

1996 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sana Loue
Keyword(s):  
Social Construction ◽  
Current Approach ◽  
Sex And Gender ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Creation ◽  
And Gender

This article investigates transsexualism and our creation of a state of medicolegal limine for transsexuals. The article addresses transsexuality as it is currently defined and explores our dichotomization of sex and gender. The author discusses both the social construction and the praxis of transsexuality, highlighting the medicolegal implications resulting from our current approach to transsexuality. The author argues that the creation of a medicolegal limine essentially prevents transsexuals from ever integrating fully as a member of one sex or gender, while simultaneously preventing the larger society from reconsidering its definitions of sex and gender. The article concludes with a summary of current challenges to our model of transsexualism and with suggestions for the resolution of this liminal medicolegal phase.

scholarly journals Pedagogy, Gender, and Communication: Learning and Unlearning Gender

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 33-36
Author(s):  
Marian Houser ◽  
Robert Sidelinger ◽  
Angela Hosek
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
Social Construction ◽  
Gender Identity ◽  
Sex And Gender ◽  
Gender Communication ◽  
The Social ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Everyday Communication ◽  
Sex And Gender Differences

Courses in gender communication are designed to enable students to examine the role of gender and gender identity in everyday communication. To aid them to understand gender communication, they should be exposed to at least three foundational areas and supporting content. Sex and gender differences, the social construction of gender, and theoretical gender lenses (biological, psychological, and critical/cultural) are critical foundations that students should grasp to recognize the complexity of gender and gender communication.

The Denial of Competence

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beth Hatt
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Social Construction ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Racial Identities ◽  
The Social ◽  
Teacher Power ◽  
Student Identities ◽  
Sociocultural Processes ◽  
And Gender

The legacy of the social construction of race, class, and gender within the social construction of smartness and identity in US schools are synthesized utilizing meta-ethnography. The study examines ethnographies of smartness and identity while also exploring what meta-ethnography has to offer for qualitative research. The analyses demonstrate that race, class, and gender are key factors in how student identities of ability or smartness are constructed within schools. The meta-ethnography reveals a better understanding of the daily, sociocultural processes in schools that contribute to the denial of competence to students across race, class, and gender. Major themes include epistemologies of schooling, learning as the production of identity, and teacher power in shaping student identities. The results are significant in that new insights are revealed into how gender, class, and racial identities develop within the daily practices of classrooms about notions of ability.

The Social Psychology of Sex and Gender

2011 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 491-499 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephanie A. Shields ◽  
Elaine C. Dicicco
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
Sex And Gender ◽  
The Social ◽  
And Gender

Ageing and gender

2020 ◽  
pp. 41-68
Author(s):  
Chris Gilleard ◽  
Paul Higgs
Keyword(s):  
Social Reproduction ◽  
Later Life ◽  
Social Imaginary ◽  
Financial Assets ◽  
Sex And Gender ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
The Social ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Bonding Capital

This chapter begins by considering the distinction between sex and gender. The latter constitutes the source of the social division between men and women considered as social beings. It serves as both a reflection of division and inequality and a source of difference and identity. The chapter then explores the framing of this division in terms of patriarchy and the inequalities that are organised by and structured within the relations of work and of social reproduction. It focuses next upon the consequences of such a division, first in terms of both financial assets and resources and then in terms of social relational capital, drawing upon Putnam’s distinction between bridging and bonding capital. It then considers other sources of difference that become more salient in later life, in terms of health illness and longevity. The chapter ends with the role of gender in representing later life, and the role of later life in representing gender. It concludes by distinguishing between gender as a structure shaping third age culture, and gender as a constituent in the social imaginary of the fourth age.

Introduction

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosemary L. Hopcroft
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Cultural Evolution ◽  
Ethnic Relations ◽  
Sex And Gender ◽  
Race And Ethnic Relations ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family ◽  
History Of ◽  
And Gender

This chapter provides an overview of The Oxford Handbook of Evolution, Biology, and Society. Chapters in the first part of this book address the history of the use of method and theory from biology in the social sciences; the second part includes chapters on evolutionary approaches to social psychology; the third part includes chapters describing research on the interaction of genes (and other biochemicals such as hormones) and environmental contexts on a variety of outcomes of sociological interest; and the fourth part includes chapters that apply evolutionary theory to areas of traditional concern to sociologists—including the family, fertility, sex and gender, religion, crime, and race and ethnic relations. The last part of the book presents two chapters on cultural evolution.

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