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What is Gender Identity

Chapter 5
Immigrant Women’s Voices and Integrating Feminism Into Migration Theory
An individual’s self-construal as a woman or man or as a girl or boy or as some combination of both. In some cases, a person might fluctuate between woman/girl and man/boy. In other cases, a person might see themselves as someone outside such categories altogether. Gender identity not the same thing as biological sex—i.e., the condition of being born with female sexual organs or male sexual organs. For many individuals, gender identity and biological sex correspond in an uncomplicated way. Some persons, however, experience little or no connection between sex and gender.
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Gendered Social Roles and Female Labor Migration: Repercussions for the Ayyappa Pilgrimage of South India
Liz Wilson (Miami University, USA)
Copyright: © 2021 |Pages: 16
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-4664-2.ch005
Abstract
International labor migration plays a key role in the South Indian state of Kerala, with repercussions for family formation, childcare, dating, and many other aspects of culture. This chapter focuses on how female labor migration affects male and female gender roles in Kerala with respect to religious activity. Female labor migration often results in enhanced personal power for women, giving them a greater say in how things are done in their families. But what about religion? How do women who have experienced expanded social possibilities through international work think about who they are as religious actors? Do expanded female roles in the home and the workplace translate into more expansive roles for women in religious spheres? And what about men? How have men dealt with the repercussions of female labor migration? With women taking on new social roles, what happens to traditional ideas about men and masculinity? Field work on a popular South India pilgrimage offers data to show how women and men in Kerala are adapting to changes wrought by female labor migration.
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Chapter 12
The Impact of Technology Innovation on the Undergraduate Learner: A Critical Perspective
A “person’s self-concept of their gender (regardless of their biological sex) is called their gender identity” (Lev, 2004, p. 397).
Published in Chapter: The Impact of Technology Innovation on the Undergraduate Learner: A Critical Perspective; From: Enhancing Learning Design for Innovative Teaching in Higher Education
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Chapter 3
Guidelines and Recommendations for Supporting Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming Students: Inclusive and Queer Education
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Chapter 6
Issues and Challenges of Transgender Men Menstruators: Gender Dysphoria and the Lived Menstrual Experiences of Transgender Men
A person’s inner sense of being a girl/woman, boy/man, some combination of both, or something else, including having no gender at all. This may or may not correspond to the gender assigned at birth.
Published in Chapter: Issues and Challenges of Transgender Men Menstruators: Gender Dysphoria and the Lived Menstrual Experiences of Transgender Men; From: Global LGBTQ+ Concerns in a Contemporary World: Politics, Prejudice, and Community
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Chapter 4
Overcoming Barriers
One’s self-identification as male or female. Although the dominant approach in psychology for many years had been to regard gender identity as residing in individuals, the important influence of societal structures, cultural expectations, and personal interactions in its development is now recognized as well. Significant evidence now exists to support the conceptualization of gender identity as influenced by both environmental and biological factors (APA, 2020).
Published in Chapter: Overcoming Barriers; From: Hispanic Women/Latina Leaders Overcoming Barriers in Higher Education
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Chapter 9
From Forms of Violence to the Specificities of the Impact on LGBTI+ Victims
It refers to personal self-recognition as a man or woman, as both, or as trans, regardless of the sex assigned at birth. It is even possible that there is no identification with any gender. Gender identity is something intimate that is only public knowledge if the person reveals it.
Published in Chapter: From Forms of Violence to the Specificities of the Impact on LGBTI+ Victims; From: Investigating and Combating Gender-Related Victimization
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Chapter 14
Transgender and Gender Expansive
Our deeply held, internal sense of self as masculine, feminine, a blend of both, neither, or something else. One’s gender identity can be the same or different from their assigned sex at birth.
Published in Chapter: Transgender and Gender Expansive; From: The Role of Child Life Specialists in Community Settings
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Chapter 2
Intersectional Dialogue While Combating LGBT-Phobia in Schools
Differently from sexual orientation, this is not related with someone’s attraction to other, but it conceives how someone perceives yourself based on the gender role. As an example, a transsexual woman has the gender identity of a woman and can love another woman, being a lesbian, or other man, being, therefore, a heterosexual person.
Published in Chapter: Intersectional Dialogue While Combating LGBT-Phobia in Schools; From: Preventing and Reducing Violence in Schools and Society
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Chapter 8
The Problems of Gender Inequality in the Period of Globalization
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Chapter 292
Computing Technologies and Science Fiction Cinema
A person’s sense of oneself as male, female, both or neither, resulting from culture and other external and/or internal factors.
Published in Chapter: Computing Technologies and Science Fiction Cinema; From: Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Fourth Edition
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Chapter 13
A Teacher Education Model for LGBTIQ Diversity at the University: How to Improve What Needs to Be Trained?
It refers to the internal and individual experience of gender as each person deeply feels it. This may or may not correspond to the sex assigned at birth, including the personal experience of the body (which could involve changing bodily appearance or function through medical means) and other expressions of gender, including dress, speech, and mannerisms.
Published in Chapter: A Teacher Education Model for LGBTIQ Diversity at the University: How to Improve What Needs to Be Trained?; From: Promoting Inclusive Education Through the Integration of LGBTIQ+ Issues in the Classroom
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Chapter 7
Communicating Transgender Identity
Individuals’ internal sense of their gender, which does not necessarily align with their sex. In the case that individuals’ gender identity and their sex do match, they are called cisgender; people who sense that their sex and gender identity are not the same fit broadly under the term transgender.
Published in Chapter: Communicating Transgender Identity; From: Handbook of Research on Communication Strategies for Taboo Topics
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Chapter 303
Gender, Body, and Computing Technologies in the Science-Fiction Film
A person’s sense of oneself as male, female, both or neither, resulting from culture and other external and/or internal factors.
Published in Chapter: Gender, Body, and Computing Technologies in the Science-Fiction Film; From: Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Third Edition
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Chapter 4
Leveraging Workforce Diversity through a Critical Examination of Intersectionalities and Divergences between Racial Minorities and Sexual Minorities
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Chapter 4
Evolution of Authentic Identity Among LGBTIQ+ School Leaders
An individual’s internal sense of their gender, which may or may not correspond to the sex they were assigned at birth.
Published in Chapter: Evolution of Authentic Identity Among LGBTIQ+ School Leaders; From: Promoting Inclusive Education Through the Integration of LGBTIQ+ Issues in the Classroom
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Chapter 17
Toward a More Inclusive Early Childhood Education: Studying Future Kindergarten Teachers' Attitudes
It refers to one’s deeply felt internal and individual experience of gender, which may or may not correspond with the sex assigned at birth ( Koenig, 2019 ).
Published in Chapter: Toward a More Inclusive Early Childhood Education: Studying Future Kindergarten Teachers' Attitudes; From: Promoting Inclusive Education Through the Integration of LGBTIQ+ Issues in the Classroom
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Chapter 11
Queering Identities: Representation in the Entertainment Industry
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Chapter 11
Gifted LGBTQ+ Strategies for Successful School Years
This is how a person identifies and sees themselves.
Published in Chapter: Gifted LGBTQ+ Strategies for Successful School Years; From: Strategies and Considerations for Educating the Academically Gifted
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Chapter 6
Queering the Curriculum: An Exploratory Study of Teachers' Perceptions on Integrating LGBTQ+-Inclusive Curriculum
A person’s deeply felt, inherent sense of being a boy, a man, or male; a girl, a woman, or female; or an alternative that may or may not correspond to a person’s sex assigned at birth.
Published in Chapter: Queering the Curriculum: An Exploratory Study of Teachers' Perceptions on Integrating LGBTQ+-Inclusive Curriculum; From: Incorporating LGBTQ+ Identities in K-12 Curriculum and Policy
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