The Bimin-Kuskusmin: A Discussion of Fitz John Porter Poole's Ethnographic Observations of Gender Identity Formation in a New Guinea People

2022 ◽  
pp. 157-169
Author(s):  
Edward F. Foulks
Keyword(s):  
Gender Identity ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
New Guinea

AMERICAN CHILDREN'S LITERATURE AS A SOURCE OF GENDER IDENTITY FORMATION

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (76) ◽  
Author(s):  
Olena Tkachyk ◽  
◽  
Kateryna Sheremeta ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Children's Literature ◽  
Gender Identity ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
Children’S Literature

scholarly journals Identity as Resistance: Identity Formation at the Intersection of Race, Gender Identity, and Sexual Orientation

2019 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-83 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alison Cerezo ◽  
Mariah Cummings ◽  
Meredith Holmes ◽  
Chelsey Williams
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Sexual Orientation ◽  
Gender Identity ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
Psychological Research ◽  
Research Literature ◽  
Constructivist Grounded Theory ◽  
Future Research ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Impact

Although the concept of intersectionality has gained widespread attention in psychological research, there remains a significant gap related to the impact of intersectionality on identity formation for persons negotiating multiple minority statuses. This gap is especially pronounced among sexual and gender expansive women of Latinx and African American descent—two groups that face disparate personal and public health risks but are largely ignored in the research literature. In response to this gap, we carried out a qualitative study using constructivist grounded theory with 20 Latinx and African American sexual minority, gender expansive women to understand participants’ experiences of forming an intersectional social identity. Following an exploration of identity formation related to the specific domains of race, gender identity, and sexual orientation, we prompted participants to consider how each of the specified identity domains impacted the formation and experience of an overall intersectional identity (e.g., how racial position impacted gender identity and/or sexual identity formation). Findings revealed four major themes that were critical in identity formation: (a) family and cultural expectations, (b) freedom to explore identity, (c) the constant negotiation of insider/outsider status, and (d) identity integration as an act of resistance. Implications for future research and psychological services are discussed.

Transforming the label of ‘whore’

Pragmatics ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-101 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elena Skapoulli
Keyword(s):  
Gender Identity ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
Female Sexuality ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
Peer Culture ◽  
Cultural Groups ◽  
Global Media ◽  
Gender Ideologies ◽  
Teenage Girls ◽  
And Gender

This article examines how gender ideologies linked to global processes such as migration and the spread of youth popular culture pose certain challenges for teenage girls who live in patriarchal social contexts. Drawing on a corpus of ethnographic data at a multiethnic middle school in Cyprus, the article focuses on the ways in which language practices mediate this experience and the possibilities that language envelops in the process of gender identity formation in globalizing times. At the intersection of contradictory ideologies ranging from the school’s religious gender discourse, which promotes modesty and chastity, to the predominant media discourse of femininity, which highlights female sexuality, girls’ gender identity claims become fraught with moral implications. In the local peer culture, girls are placed on a fabricated and culturally widespread “virgin-whore” continuum along which different cultural groups – which are often equated with ethnic groups – are evaluated. Paradoxically, girls who embrace sexual freedom (either in practice or rhetorically) may in fact exercise agency and become empowered precisely because of early adolescents’ fascination with sexuality. These girls draw largely on the dominant discourse of femininity abundantly marketed by global media and the pop culture. They thus manage to explore alternative ideas about agency and gender in a locally rebellious manner that defies the traditionalist female roles that school and church promote.

Role of Language in Gender Identity Formation in Pakistani School Textbooks

2014 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qaisar Khan ◽  
Nighat Sultana ◽  
Qasim Bughio ◽  
Arab Naz
Keyword(s):  
Gender Identity ◽  
Identity Formation
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