scholarly journals Representation of the Intersex Phenomenon in Contemporary Culture: Cinematic Discourse

2021 ◽  
pp. 80-88
Author(s):  
Svetlana O. Izrina ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Gender Identity ◽  
Social Acceptance ◽  
Sex Role ◽  
Contemporary Culture ◽  
Current Form ◽  
Child Relationship ◽  
New Type ◽  
Gender Paradigm ◽  
Gender System ◽  
Binary Gender

Today, significant changes are taking place in the approach to the study of many sociocultural phenomena. Duality and polarity of their perception and analysis are being mitigated, alternative facets of the familiar and the generally accepted are coming to light, a number of “marginal” ideas are becoming the “new norm”. The research paradigm of the 20th – 21st centuries pays special attention to non-binary gender. Modern researchers focus on such issues as self-identification and search for gender identity, mechanisms of gender construction, variability of sex-role and identification models, non-conventional forms of gender identity (transgender and agender, intersexuality, etc.), as well as their representation in contemporary culture. One of such nonconventional phenomena of culture today is intersexuality, the current form of the well-known philosophical idea of androgyny. Intersex as a phenomenon of contemporary culture is considered as an element of the emerging non-binary gender system. Nowadays, intersex is not only the denomination of a person with biological characteristics atypical of the binary gender paradigm, but also the name of a distinctive culture discussing the problems of this new kind of people, who have become a significant part of our society. This article studies the representation of the intersex phenomenon in contemporary culture through the lens of cinematography. The sociocultural status of intersexuality explains the increasing quantity and thematic diversity of cinematic material. Intersexuality is a subject of active artistic reflection of many contemporary directors (L. Puenzo, C. Lavagna, J. Solomonoff, R. Féret, S. Savory, etc.), the discussion of acute social, legal and ethical problems being their focus. Thus, the leading themes are as follows: self-identification of intersex people and their search for gender identity; the problem of medicalization of intersex people and the legality of “corrective”/ “normalizing” operations from both medical and ethical points of view; parent–intersex child relationship; socialization of intersex teenagers and social acceptance of this new type of person.

Gendering Occupations: An Introductory Exercise for Teaching Reproduction of the Binary Gender System

2018 ◽  
Vol 46 (4) ◽  
pp. 324-334 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angela M. Adkins
Keyword(s):  
Community College ◽  
Sex Role ◽  
Personality Characteristics ◽  
Bem Sex Role Inventory ◽  
Diversity Course ◽  
Individual Agency ◽  
Labor Statistics ◽  
Gender System ◽  
Bureau Of Labor Statistics ◽  
Binary Gender

This paper presents a foundational classroom exercise used to help introduce the systemic and interactional aspects of the binary gender system, using 12 occupations selected from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and personality characteristics from the Bem Sex Role Inventory. This activity was conducted in an introductory Diversity course at a Midwestern community college over 13 semesters (n = 603). Collected results indicate a strong tendency for students to invisibly gender each occupation without any suggestive cues and a willingness in retrospect to examine their role in the implicit process of gendering. As such, this exercise may offer an additional strategy to help students understand that their individual agency can serve both to reproduce and challenge existing power relations.

scholarly journals The P600 for singular “they”: How the brain reacts when John decides to treat themselves to sushi.

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Grusha Prasad ◽  
Joanna Morris
Keyword(s):  
Gender Identity ◽  
Gender Identities ◽  
Processing Effort ◽  
The Brain ◽  
Binary Gender ◽  
The Way

There has been increased awareness that individuals need not have a binary gender identity (i.e., male or female), but rather, gender identities exist on a spectrum. With this increased awareness, there has also been an increase in the use of they as a singular pronoun when referring to individuals with a non-binary gender identity. Has the processing of singular they changed along with a change in its usage? Previous studies have demonstrated that sentences in which they is co-indexed with singular antecedents, are judged acceptable and are easy to process, but only if the antecedents are non-referential and/or have ambiguous gender; co-indexing they with referential antecedents with unambiguous gender (e.g., Mary) results in lower acceptability ratings and greater processing effort. We investigated whether participants who frequently interacted with individuals with a non-binary gender identity and/or identified as having a non-binary gender themselves would process sentences in which themselves was co-indexed with singular antecedents similarly. We found a significant P600 effect for sentences in which themselves was co-indexed with singular referential antecedents with unambiguous gender, but failed to find a P600 effect when the antecedents were non-referential and/or had an ambiguous gender. This pattern of results is consistent with behavioural results from previous studies, suggesting that the change in the usage of singular they has not resulted in a corresponding change in the way in which this pronoun is processed.

Gender diversity and non-binary presentations in young people attending the United Kingdom’s National Gender Identity Development Service

2018 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 277-290 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jos Twist ◽  
Nastasja M de Graaf
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Identity Development ◽  
Gender Identity ◽  
Gender Diversity ◽  
The Body ◽  
Intrinsic Factors ◽  
Gender Expression ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Development Service ◽  
Binary Gender

There has been a recent rise in the number of people who hold a non-binary gender identity. However, the proportion of young people attending gender services who identify as non-binary has not yet been investigated. This article presents the findings from a pilot study of newly designed questionnaire, the Gender Diversity Questionnaire, which included questions about gender identity and gender expression. Responses from 251 adolescents attending the United Kingdom’s National Gender Identity Development Service between June 2016 and February 2017 are reported here. The majority, 56.9%, of young people identified as trans, 29.3% identified as a binary gender (male or female), 11% identified as non-binary and 1.2% as agender. There were no significant differences in self-defined identities based on assigned gender or age. However, once young people were separated into these groups, some of them were very small; thus, a larger sample is required. In terms of aspects of gender expression that were important to the young people, the data formed five themes – name and pronouns, external appearance, the body, intrinsic factors and ‘other’. Strengths and weaknesses of the research are discussed as well as future work that will be conducted.

Effects of Pretrial Publicity on Male and Female Jurors and Judges in a Mock Rape Trial

1993 ◽  
Vol 73 (3_part_1) ◽  
pp. 819-832 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert G. Riedel
Keyword(s):  
Gender Identity ◽  
Sex Role ◽  
Pretrial Publicity ◽  
Mock Jurors ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Mode Of Presentation ◽  
Rape Trial ◽  
And Gender

A study explored influence of pretrial publicity and gender identity on verdicts and severity of sentence in a mock rape trial. Mock jurors and judges were exposed to four pretrial publicity conditions before watching a simulated rape trial. After viewing the trial, jurors rendered a verdict (guilty or not guilty) and judges prescribed a sentence. The Bern Sex-role Inventory was used to analyze gender identity and its relation to verdict and sentencing. Verdicts were not influenced by pretrial publicity, but sentencing was more severe following exposure of mock judges to pretrial publicity about a mistaken acquittal and less severe following exposure of these judges to pretrial publicity about a mistaken conviction. Subjects classified by the Bern inventory as feminine or androgynous rendered a verdict of “guilty” more often than subjects classified as masculine or undifferentiated. Men who rendered verdicts of “guilty” had less confidence in their judgments than men who found the defendant “not guilty.” Conversely, women who found the defendant “not guilty” expressed less confidence than women who found the defendant “guilty.” The findings are compared and contrasted with similar studies and discussed in regards to gender identity, subjects’ characteristics, and mode of presentation.

Non-binary gender identity and transgendence beyond psychiatric discourse

2020 ◽  
Vol LII (2) ◽  
pp. 5-11
Author(s):  
Vladimir D. Mendelevich
Keyword(s):  
Gender Identity ◽  
Human Behavior ◽  
Gender Diversity ◽  
Binary Approach ◽  
Psychiatric Discourse ◽  
Gender Identity Disorders ◽  
Binary Gender

An analysis of the problem of non-binary gender identity and transgender shows that the professional position of psychiatrists and psychologists is often based on selfish gender when subjectivity begins to be seen in psychiatric diagnostics due to a rigid binary gender setting. Modern research proves the existence of gender diversity and a spectrum of gender identity. All this allows us to state that the phenomenon of so-called gender identity disorders goes beyond the psychopathological context. The psychiatrists use of the binary approach does not correspond to rapidly changing public ideas about the norm and pathology of human behavior.

scholarly journals Gender Identity and Sex Role of Patients Operated on for Bladder Exstrophy-Epispadias

2016 ◽  
Vol 196 (2) ◽  
pp. 531-535 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seppo Taskinen ◽  
Janne S. Suominen ◽  
Aino K. Mattila
Keyword(s):  
Gender Identity ◽  
Sex Role ◽  
Bladder Exstrophy
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