(2009), and Gone Girl (2012), the female characters often use violence as a way of achieving ends and accomplishing goals. It may be tempting to dismiss these women outright as repugnant villains, or perhaps as abnormal examples of female mental illness. Upon closer examination, however, it ...
Precision Medicine implies a deep understanding of inter-individual differences in health and disease that are due to genetic and environmental factors. To acquire such understanding there is a need for the implementation of different types of technologies based on artificial intelligence (AI) that enab...
Yet, arguably the biggest problem with gender roles comes in the form of gender-based violence. Attacks on women can be motivated by sexual or ideological reasonings, but many of them stem from hurtful gender roles and stereotypes. What Causes Gender Roles? Experts often discuss the origin of ...
lesbian or bisexual. Some rejected the idea of reclaiming the slur on principle while others believed it was an effective way to change the meaning and thus the power of the word. Now fewer and fewer people are referring to themselves as gay, lesbian or even bi. Most just say they’re q...
The latter is of a symbolic nature, and she refers to it as a “cultural construction” (Crenshaw 1991, p. 1245). The media coverage and other narratives construct identities, portray images, and define the violence exercised against disadvantaged subjects—Black women in Crenshaw’s study. ...
In the same way that gender-based violence is a problem across other masculine social institutions (e.g., military, religious institutions, and prisons), it is especially prevalent in the sporting world among not only athletes, but coaches, trainers, owners (for professional sports), and team ...
This page is a resource explaining general sociological concepts of sex and gender. The examples I cover are focused on experiences of otherness. In sociology, we make a distinction between sex and gender. Sex are the biological traits that societies use
Based on model 2, model 3 investigated whether the frequency of gender identity variability was associated with depressive symptoms in both BP and WP levels, while also accounting for hormone and puberty blocker use and cumulative exposure to LGBT violence. Significance testing for HLM analyses were...
This reductio ad absurdum is offered to present the possibility that defining gender too broadly could lead to a definition that has little meaning. Alternatively, gender identity could be defined in terms of sex-typical traits and behaviors, so that being a boy means behaving in the ways boys...
One of the reasons rape and sexual assault survivors often engage in this kind of misogyny is as a way of filtering out the most dangerous men by allowing them room in which to discuss their actual levels of violence and woman-hatred rather than the level they deem socially appropriate in ...