Gender systems are the social structures that establish the number of genders and their associated gender roles in every society. A gender role is "everything...
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sex-based social constructs (i.e. gender roles) as well as gender expression. Most cultures use a gender binary, in which gender is divided into two categories...
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feminine, whether by social system, cultural belief, or both simultaneously. Most cultures use a gender binary, having two genders (boys/men and girls/women)...
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In linguistics, a grammatical gender system is a specific form of a noun class system, where nouns are assigned to gender categories that are often not...
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biologists, many legal systems and government bodies and intergovernmental agencies such as the WHO make a distinction between gender and sex. In most individuals...
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with the binary gender system. Agender individuals, also known as genderless, gender-free, non-gendered, or ungendered, have no gender at all. This group...
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A gender symbol is a pictogram or glyph used to represent sex and gender, for example in biology and medicine, in genealogy, or in the sociological fields...
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A system of grammatical gender, whereby every noun was treated as either masculine, feminine, or neuter, existed in Old English, but fell out of use during...
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or listener. Some languages with gender-specific pronouns have them as part of a grammatical gender system, a system of agreement where most or all nouns...
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Third gender is a concept in which individuals are categorized, either by themselves or by society, as neither a man or woman. It is also a social category...
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Kannada (Three gendered pronouns; no grammatical gender) Malayalam (Three gendered pronouns; no grammatical gender) Tamil (Three gendered pronouns; no grammatical...
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In psychology, sociology and gender studies, "doing gender" is the idea that gender, rather than being an innate quality of individuals, is a social construct...
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contrast to the gender binary, Bugis society recognizes five genders: makkunrai, oroané, bissu, calabai, and calalai. The concept of five genders has been a...
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Gender dysphoria (GD) is the distress a person experiences due to a mismatch between their gender identity—their personal sense of their own gender—and...
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support the endocrine system. Sweden became the first country in the world to allow transgender people to change their legal gender after "reassignment...
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The last phase she calls "gender theory" – where the "ideological inscription and the literary effects of the sex/gender system" are explored". This model...
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X-gender (Japanese: Xジェンダー, romanized: x-jendā) is a third-gender that differs from M, for male, or F, for female. The term X-gender came into use during...
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Gender policing is the imposition or enforcement of normative gender expressions on an individual who is perceived as not adequately performing, through...
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Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity is a book by the post-structuralist gender theorist and philosopher Judith Butler in which the...
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Noun class (redirect from Rational gender)
system and (b) a gender system. To illustrate, the verb stem -tonh is used for enclosed objects. When -tonh is combined with different gender prefixes, it...
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Gender equality, also known as sexual equality or equality of the sexes, is the state of equal ease of access to resources and opportunities regardless...
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Gender inequality is the social phenomenon in which people are not treated equally on the basis of gender. This inequality can be caused by gender discrimination...
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designate people who were assigned male at birth and develop a feminine gender identity. Other terms have been invented and are used in South America in...
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A gender role, or sex role, is a set of socially accepted behaviors and attitudes deemed appropriate or desirable for individuals based on their sex. Gender...
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Swedish language (section Writing system)
accusative. The gender system resembled that of modern German, having masculine, feminine and neuter genders. The masculine and feminine genders were later...
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Gender and Jewish Studies is an emerging subfield at the intersection of gender studies, queer studies, and Jewish studies. Gender studies centers on interdisciplinary...
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Gender studies is an interdisciplinary academic field devoted to analysing gender identity and gendered representation. Gender studies originated in the...
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Anatolian languages (section Gender)
from PIE.[unreliable source?] The two-gender system has been described as a merger of masculine and feminine genders following the phonetic merger of PIE...
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Femininity (redirect from Female gender role)
feminine beauty. Femininity as a social construct relies on a binary gender system that treats men and masculinity as different from, and opposite to,...
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