Sex and Gender in the Semiotic Perspective. Male and Female Cultural Identities in Finnish Cultural Products from the 1950s to the 1980s

1987 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 207-211
Author(s):  
Risto Heiskala
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identities ◽  
Sex And Gender ◽  
Cultural Products ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
Semiotic Perspective ◽  
And Gender

Sex and Gender

2018 ◽  
pp. 54-69
Author(s):  
Ásta
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Meaning ◽  
Sex And Gender ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Copernican Revolution ◽  
Subsequent Chapter ◽  
The Status ◽  
Gender Practices ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The Relationship

A conferralist interpretation of the status of sex and gender on the post-Beauvoirean feminist picture is offered as well as an interpretation and critique of Judith Butler’s accounts of gender and sex. On the post-Beauvoirean picture sex is biologically given and gender is the cultural meaning of it. Butler offers a reorientation of the relationship between gender and sex, where what counts as sex and a sexed body is determined by gender practices. Male and female are regulative ideals masquerading as biological givens that justify gender practices. The author makes use of the notion of a game, Austinean exercitives, Hegel’s account of subjectification and objectification, and Kant’s Copernican revolution to flesh out the details of her interpretation of Butler before offering her critique of the position, which will set up her own account, offered in the subsequent chapter.

Adolescents' Perceptions of the Gendered Context of Depression: "Tough" Boys and Objectified Girls

2007 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 144-162 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Wisdom ◽  
Amy Rees ◽  
Katherine Riley ◽  
Teresa Weis
Keyword(s):  
Gender Roles ◽  
Adolescent Depression ◽  
Sex And Gender ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Societal Expectations ◽  
Physical Changes ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Gender Specific ◽  
Socialization Influence

Gender-specific attributes and socialization influence the development of depression in adolescents, but little research has addressed adolescents' views on this topic. We interviewed 22 adolescents regarding their views on the impact of sex and gender role influence in depression. Male and female participants: (a) described societal expectations and cultural messages, including high and conflicting expectations for girls, and consistent messages of being "macho" and unemotional for boys, as related to adolescent depression; (b) perceived physical changes during puberty as contributors to depression for girls, but not for boys; and (c) associated loneliness and rejection with depression for both boys and girls. We discuss implications for treatment that include directly addressing gender roles with depressed adolescents.

scholarly journals Transvestites as Actors and Transactors

1981 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-88
Author(s):  
Susan McLellan
Keyword(s):  
Social Order ◽  
South East Asia ◽  
Sex And Gender ◽  
Gender Assignment ◽  
Culturally Specific ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Folk Drama ◽  
Males And Females ◽  
Other World ◽  
And Gender

In this essay I shall be dealing, first of all, with western categories of sex and gender and examining how these are dichotomised into a dualistic opposition of male and female. This dualism may even entail the surgical "correction" of bodies so as to·ensure a congruence of gender assignment, identity and role. Western dualism is opposed to 'anomalous' categories. It becomes evident that such classification rests on culturally specific views of both natural and social reality. Material will be presented here to show exactly how culturally relative these concepts are; in Bali for example, the religious and social order pivots on the unity of males and females which correlates with the unity and oneness of the Hindu gods. This oneness is also manifested by the important role that both male and female transvestites play as transactors between 'this world and the other world' in temple ritual and dances. With the decline of the Hindu pantheism and the rise of monotheistic Islam in Java, the former unity developed into a dichotomy of male and female. Here the only legitimate role for the transvetite is as a low status actor protraying old heroines and redundant gods. In Malaysia, the transvestite may be an actor or even a shaman dealing in 'unorthodox' religious categories which, somehow, equate with ambiguous roles in modern day society. Here again, with the rise of a theocentric Islam male and female roles became dichotomised in society, although both folk drama and shamanistic ritual performances are evocative and reminiscent of the former Hindu 'unity'. It is apparent that transvestites perform on the 'periphery' of society. A special 'liminal' niche is set aside and bounded, yet it is clear that the very context of "betwixt and betweeness" may also he functional for the wider society - be it of a religious, magical, dramatic or even a sexual nature. In South East Asia the recognised roles of the transvestite lends a legitimacy to potential ambiguity which contrasts, somewhat starkly, with the rigid insistence in western societies on the duality of gender, emphasis on conforminity, and a negation or intolerance of anomalous categories of gender.

scholarly journals Querying medical and legal discourses of queer sexes and genders in South Africa

1970 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Thamar Klein
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Gender Identity ◽  
Sex And Gender ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Sex Development ◽  
Legal Discourses ◽  
And Gender

South Africa is one of the most progressive countries worldwide regarding the rights of people with variations of gender identity and/or sex development. This paper queries medical and legal discourses of queer sex and gender. It takes a look at the medico-legal discourses on people whose identities and/or bodies exist outside of the binary of male and female or transition within this binary in South Africa.

scholarly journals Systematic Review of Sex and Gender Effects in Traumatic Brain Injury: Equity in Clinical and Functional Outcomes

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tatyana Mollayeva ◽  
Shirin Mollayeva ◽  
Nicole Pacheco ◽  
Angela Colantonio
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Traumatic Brain Injury ◽  
Brain Injury ◽  
Gender Equity ◽  
Functional Outcomes ◽  
Social Equity ◽  
Gender Effects ◽  
Sex And Gender ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
And Gender

Background: Although traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a leading cause of death and disability in male and female patients worldwide, little is known about the effect of sex and gender on TBI outcomes.Objectives: This systematic review summarizes the evidence on the effect of sex and gender on core TBI outcomes.Methods: All English-language studies from six literature databases that addressed core outcomes in adults with TBI and included sex or gender, TBI severity, and age in their analyses were considered eligible. Two reviewers extracted data, and two reviewers assessed study quality using tools recommended by the National Institutes of Health. The results were sorted according to time post-injury, injury severity, gender equity ranking of the study's country of origin, and outcomes studied. The results from the included studies were grouped based on the approach taken in reporting their respective findings.Results and Limitations: Of 172 articles assessed, 58 studies were selected, comprising 1, 265, 955 participants with TBI (67% male across all studies) of all injury severities. All studies were conducted in countries with a very high or high human development index, while the Gender Inequality Index (GII) varied. While the heterogeneity across studies limited any meaningful conclusions with respect to the role of sex and gender, we did observe that as gender equality ranking improved, differences between male and female participants in outcomes would diminish. Inclusion of social equity parameters in the studies was limited.Conclusions and Implications: The non-uniform findings observed bring forth the need to develop and use a comprehensive and consistent methodology in the study of sex and gender post-TBI, incorporating social equity parameters to uncover the potential social underpinnings of gender effects on health and functional outcomes.Systematic Review Registration: CRD42018098697.

scholarly journals Neither Idolatry nor Iconoclasm: A Critical Essentialism for Catholic Feminist Theology

Horizons ◽  
1998 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nancy A. Dallavalle
Keyword(s):  
Feminist Theology ◽  
Physical Structure ◽  
Sex And Gender ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Socially Constructed ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Catholic Theological

AbstractFollowing the work of gender theorists who find the terms “male” and “female” to be socially constructed, feminist theology has tended to repudiate essentialism. The position that results is one of agnosticism about biological sexuality, a position that is only reinforced by the essentialist excesses that ground the discussion of the “psycho-physical structure” of women found in official Catholic teaching. This article suggests that the polarity of feminist theology and official Catholic teaching on questions of sex and gender can be overcome by using the framework of a “critical essentialism,” a position that retrieves the Catholic theological tradition of reflection on “male” and “female” while allowing its claims to be appropriately winnowed by the insights of gender theorists.

Gender and Sport

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaime Schultz
Keyword(s):  
Physiological Characteristics ◽  
Sex And Gender ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
And Gender

Do the terms “sex” and “gender” mean the same thing? The terms “sex” and “gender” are often used interchangeably, but there are important differences between them. Sex refers to biological or physiological characteristics that define male and female. As discussed in Chapter 6,...

Chinese Femininities, Chinese Masculinities: A Reader. Edited by Susan Brownell and Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom. [Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2002. xiv+460 pp. £40.00; $60.00. ISBN 0-520-21103-0.]

2003 ◽  
Vol 173 ◽  
pp. 214-251
Author(s):  
Delia Davin
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Construction ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Chinese Society ◽  
Sex And Gender ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
The Family ◽  
And Gender

This compilation will be welcomed by all who teach courses on gender, women or the family in Chinese society. Edited by the anthropologist Susan Brownell and the historian Jeffrey Wasserstrom, the book offers a series of carefully paired essays on male and female issues that explore the historical and cultural construction of sex and gender in Chinese society.

Femme Fatale or Lesbian Femme

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris Straayer
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Difference ◽  
Film Noir ◽  
Sex And Gender ◽  
Femme Fatale ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Same Gender ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Creative Capacity ◽  
Double Cross

This chapter analyzes the neo-noir Bound (1996). It shows how the splitting of sex from gender liberates generic conventions in the service of protagonists who, enacting a lesbian romance in film noir, avail themselves of generic formulas to double-cross the villains. Analyzing the creative capacity of noir gender “to turn cartwheels on both male and female characters within a system of sexual difference,” the chapter shows how Bound—self-consciously playing on the debated identities of butch, femme, and feminine—generates different-sex erotics through same-gender protagonists. Through such playful manipulations, the film opens up flexible reimaginings of sex and gender across the spectrum of gay and straight as alternatives to rigidifying heterosexual and homosexual binaries.

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