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Gender blending
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ISBN: 0585000689 9780585000688 0253316375 9780253316370 0253205336 9780253205339 Year: 1989 Publisher: Bloomington Indiana University Press

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Gender Blending examines the social construction of gender and its implications for the lives of gender blending females and for society in general. Aaron Devor constructs a theory which interprets gender as a social distinction related to, but different from, biological sex. Devor defines gender as a status learned by displaying the culturally defined insignia of the gender category with which one identifies.Fifteen women who have to varying degrees rejected traditional femininity, but not their femaleness, discuss their lives with Devor. These women, sometimes mistaken for men, choose to minimize their female vulnerability in a patriarchal world by minimizing their femininity. During childhood, their reaction to their secondary status in society, as potential victims of violence and exploitation, was often to be a tomboy. Now, in adulthood, their gender identity does not fit either of the two roles socially and culturally defined as feminine and masculine.Gender Blendingoffers a deeper appreciation of the social construction of gender. Any woman who has questioned the value of the concept of femininity will find the experiences of these gender blending females revealing and important to a view of woman's place in the patriarchy.

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ISBN: 0253023343 9780253023346 9780253022868 025302286X 0253336317 9780253336316 Year: 2016 Publisher: Bloomington

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With a new introduction, Devor positions the volume in twenty-first century debates of identity politics and community-building and provides a window into his own self-exploration as a result of his research.


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Transgender: a reference handbook
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ISBN: 9781440856914 Year: 2019 Publisher: Santa Barbara (Calif.) ABC-CLIO

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