The Gender Binary Meets the Gender-Variant Child

2014 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 338-361 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth P. Rahilly
Keyword(s):  
Gender Variant ◽  
Gender Binary

scholarly journals “Now I feel ‘truly’ like me!”: a discourse analysis of the ways ‘the gaze’ functions in two children's picture books featuring transgender and gender variant characters

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meredith Farley
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Picture Books ◽  
Gender Variance ◽  
Gender Transition ◽  
Gender Variant ◽  
The Gaze ◽  
Children's Picture Books ◽  
Gender Binary ◽  
Theoretical Perspectives ◽  
And Gender

Drawing on transgender, queer and feminist theoretical perspectives, I critically analyze two children’s picture books featuring transgender and gender variant characters. With these critical theoretical perspectives in mind, this discourse analysis examines the ways the books, both visually and textually, depict gender embodiment and the experiences of the characters. Using questions derived from these theoretical lenses, I analyze concepts of power, normalcy, difference, the gender binary, gender fluidity, intelligibility and unintelligibility. These concepts contribute to the dominant discourse of ‘the gaze’, seen in varying ways in the books. Children’s story books largely underrepresent the experiences of transgender characters, particularly books outlining, and explaining, a social gender transition. The majority of picture books with LGBTQ+ themes focus on same sex families and feature boys in dresses, thus centralize around disrupting the constraints of masculinity. I conclude this paper with recommendations for selecting, reading, and discussing books with transgender and gender variant protagonists. The central themes outlined in the academic literature illustrate that ‘the gaze’ and regulation of knowledge have a significant impact on what is visible in children’s books. This may ultimately affect children’s understanding, and appreciation, of gender variance and, hence, social gender transitions in early childhood.

scholarly journals “Now I feel ‘truly’ like me!”: a discourse analysis of the ways ‘the gaze’ functions in two children's picture books featuring transgender and gender variant characters

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meredith Farley
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Picture Books ◽  
Gender Variance ◽  
Gender Transition ◽  
Gender Variant ◽  
The Gaze ◽  
Children's Picture Books ◽  
Gender Binary ◽  
Theoretical Perspectives ◽  
And Gender

Drawing on transgender, queer and feminist theoretical perspectives, I critically analyze two children’s picture books featuring transgender and gender variant characters. With these critical theoretical perspectives in mind, this discourse analysis examines the ways the books, both visually and textually, depict gender embodiment and the experiences of the characters. Using questions derived from these theoretical lenses, I analyze concepts of power, normalcy, difference, the gender binary, gender fluidity, intelligibility and unintelligibility. These concepts contribute to the dominant discourse of ‘the gaze’, seen in varying ways in the books. Children’s story books largely underrepresent the experiences of transgender characters, particularly books outlining, and explaining, a social gender transition. The majority of picture books with LGBTQ+ themes focus on same sex families and feature boys in dresses, thus centralize around disrupting the constraints of masculinity. I conclude this paper with recommendations for selecting, reading, and discussing books with transgender and gender variant protagonists. The central themes outlined in the academic literature illustrate that ‘the gaze’ and regulation of knowledge have a significant impact on what is visible in children’s books. This may ultimately affect children’s understanding, and appreciation, of gender variance and, hence, social gender transitions in early childhood.

Living in a Gender-Binary World

2017 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-90 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kim McKeage ◽  
Elizabeth Crosby ◽  
Terri Rittenburg
Keyword(s):  
Structural Characteristics ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Marketing Practice ◽  
Gender Variant ◽  
Gender Binary ◽  
Complete Formulation ◽  
Consumer Vulnerability ◽  
Marketing Systems ◽  
Market Factors ◽  
Vulnerability Theory

Baker, Gentry, and Rittenburg’s (2005) model of consumer vulnerability outlines the personal, social, and structural characteristics that frame consumers’ experiences of vulnerability in the marketplace. Later applications and enhancements have expanded consumer vulnerability theory. While the theory has been applied in numerous settings, to date it has not been used to examine the ways that gender identity may intersect with market factors to produce vulnerability. Application in this setting also allows for the integration of various model enhancements, and the examination of vulnerability using a more complete formulation of the theory. Based on in-depth qualitative interviews and collages, along with examples from current marketing practice, our research shows consumer vulnerability to be a useful lens for understanding gender variant consumers’ experiences and the ways in which marketing systems can be engaged to reshape those experiences.

Childhood social gender transition and psychosocial well-being: A comparison to cisgender gender-variant children.

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 241-253 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wang Ivy Wong ◽  
Anna I. R. van der Miesen ◽  
Tjonnie G. F. Li ◽  
Laura N. MacMullin ◽  
Doug P. VanderLaan
Keyword(s):  
Well Being ◽  
Gender Transition ◽  
Gender Variant

Nonbinary Gender Identities

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Hegarty ◽  
Y. Gavriel Ansara ◽  
Meg-John Barker
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Social Norms ◽  
Gender Identities ◽  
Health Culture ◽  
Gender Binary ◽  
Nonbinary Gender ◽  
Language And Cognition ◽  
Binary Options ◽  
Gender Categories ◽  
Binary Gender

This chapter concerns nonbinary genders; identities and roles between or beyond gender categories such as the binary options ‘women and men,’ for example. We review the emerging literature on people who do not identify with such binary gender schemes, unpack the often-implicit logic of thinking about others through the lens of gender binary schemes, and briefly describe some other less-researched, but longstanding cultural gender systems which recognize nonbinary genders. This chapter makes the case that consideration of nonbinary genders is germane to several core topics in psychology including identity, mental health, culture, social norms, language, and cognition.

scholarly journals The Colonial Project of Gender (and Everything Else)

Genealogy ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 67
Author(s):  
Sandy O’Sullivan
Keyword(s):  
First Nations ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Gender Diversity ◽  
Gender Binary ◽  
Religious Ideals ◽  
And Gender

The gender binary, like many colonial acts, remains trapped within socio-religious ideals of colonisation that then frame ongoing relationships and restrict the existence of Indigenous peoples. In this article, the colonial project of denying difference in gender and gender diversity within Indigenous peoples is explored as a complex erasure casting aside every aspect of identity and replacing it with a simulacrum of the coloniser. In examining these erasures, this article explores how diverse Indigenous gender presentations remain incomprehensible to the colonial mind, and how reinstatements of kinship and truth in representation fundamentally supports First Nations’ agency by challenging colonial reductions. This article focuses on why these colonial practices were deemed necessary at the time of invasion, and how they continue to be forcefully applied in managing Indigenous peoples into a colonial structure of family, gender, and everything else.

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