Femininity - Science topic

I think that the problem is cultural, and it is arbitrary then; linguists have solved the problem by THE ROMATIZATION OF NAMES? THEY PROPOSE A UNIVERSAL SPELLING SHAPE (STANDARD). take the case of the sound /f/ in French/ sometimes it takes the spelling "ph" like in the following words: telephone, pharmacie, photo,,phobie,........ etc

this point makes learning French vocabumary spelling more annoying for begginers , isn't it?

I agree, if only there will be a man and a woman as parents.

It is important in any research study to clearly identify and justify the sample population that you have chosen to study. In the case of your undergraduate dissertation, you have chosen to focus on female university students aged 18-23 and examine the reasons for their choice of "feminine" degree choices. Your justification for this population could be that this age range represents a key developmental period in terms of decision-making around education and career choices. Additionally, exploring the reasons behind these choices for female university students in particular is important in today's society where there is increasing emphasis on gender equality and closing the gender gap in various fields. Finally, this age range is representative of a key demographic within the university student population and therefore can shed light on trends and patterns within this group.

Vasileios Papadopoulos If I understood you correctly, you have research in mind in which you would like to correlate gender with other variables. Maybe you could use two continuous variables? One with the poles of "gender identity existing - no gender identity" and the other one with "masculine - feminine".

Hello Mikaella,

So, at present you have two scores for each case: (a) fem; (b) masc. And you want to take these scores and generate a single classification variable that will have four possible categories, is that correct?

If so, try this spss syntax, which will create a new variable, class:

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compute class = 0 .

if ((fem > 102) and (masc < 90)) class = 1 .

if ((fem > 102) and (masc > 89)) class = 2 .

if ((fem > 102) and (masc > 89)) class = 3 .

if ((fem < 103) and (masc < 90)) class = 4 .

execute .

value labels class 1 'Feminine' 2 'Masculine' 3 'Androgynous' 4 'Undifferentiated' .

missing values class (0) .

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Good luck with your work.

Hi Mikaella, it’s a while ago now, but I’m happy to try to help if you tell me a bit more about what the issue is. From memory, in the end my problem was solved by having a really good think about it, and using Compute Variable, so that as much as possible was generated by SPSS itself, rather than me manually entering syntax- that’s how I eliminated whatever error I was making! Do write back if you‘d like to give me any more information. Best, Laura

Madeline Hope Wyndzen, I want to thank you so much for the time you took to respond and provide some options to me and your insight on this inventory to help guide my next steps. Stats are tough for me so this was a huge help. I went with option two per your suggestion and agree that's a really good way to read the categories. Thank you!

Sandra Bem introduced in 1974 the idea that gender roles do not necessarily have to be one or the other, and that the person can be highly feminine, highly masculine or neither, thus introducing the concept of androgynous or undifferentiated personalities; So, according to the Bem Sex Roles Inventory (BSRI) individuals can be classified as male, female, androgynous (both male and female) and undifferentiated (neither predominantly male nor predominantly female).

This inventory consists of 60 adjectives of which 20 are stereotypically masculine, 20 are feminine and another 20 do not have gender typification.

Multimodal analysis and feminist analysis would be much more helpful for you. See Kress's Multimodal Discourse Analysis.

Thank you for giving us food for thought.

I share your appreciation, and I humbly consider that it is one more example of the lack of interdisciplinary work.

Greetings and thanks

Fernando (from Argentina)

Gracias a usted por hacernos reflexionar.

Comparto su apreciación, y considero humildemente que es un ejemplo más de la falta de trabajo interdisciplinar.

Saludos y gracias

Fernando (desde Argentina)

Trying to know many things about MONA LISA from your posts, and I thank you all.

Please look at the following below links which may help you in your analysis:

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I think the jungian approach is very important to consider for you question.

Additionally, such stories are not typically just for male fantasy or female fantasy. It's often the relationship between, and the historical roles each plays. Such dynamics are played out so frequently and often that they are easily observed and turn to story, then applied to myth.

This hermaphrodism, or production of female flowers in the tassel, is probably a hormonal upset caused by drought. Ethylene production is triggered by a number of stresses, including drought, and etheylene is known to promote female sex expression in a number of species including corn and cucumber. I can send you some references over email if you'll send me your email address. Mine is gregg@wvwc.edu.

gender steriotypes is about perceptions or poeples attitudes. linkert scale well designed can do the margic. but be aware the scale will be based on your attitudes and th outcome will indicate whether low or high based on agree strongly agree or disagree or strongly agree.

As an old psychologist, I fully understand the displeasure with the domain's imperfection, methodological and philosophical. Certainly, seeking to understand, nay, better, to know what consciousness is, is worth many careers in this field. Yes, true knowledge about the fundamental nature of reality is sacred (sic) for any science.

But if you stay with the initial question:

"Why study psychology, if not to address the fundamental nature of reality?"

my answer (and choice) not uncommon, is: "For other important reasons too!" First of all, in order to understand and help and change if needed the human beings, as they appear to be and as they understand (or not) themselves in their life-world i.e. in the world as they live it. Finding the regularities and the often "subjective" motivations of persons who have names, identity, genealogies, characters, beliefs, feelings, values... is a great reason to study psychology, "scientifically" with the improper methodological flavour of the past century or even "non-scientifically" as it happened for millennia and still happens, thanks heavens!

Happy new year!

Try Lemkau

Gender and race are non-biological manmade constructs. These terms create a hierarchy to justify oppression and superiority. There are as many genders as there are people who walk the earth. Freeing oneself of the binary dogma of heterosexism is a step in the right direction for this important research. People who might think that gay people really want to be the opposite sex are seeing the world in a heteronormative way; that is to say, they believe that heterosexuality is the norm and perhaps the only way to be. 

Developed in 1948 by Dr. Alfred Kinsey, sexologist at Indiana University, the Kinsey Scale measures sexual orientation along a continuum. Sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender expression are the redharings of standardized scales because, in my opinion, what bathroom a person uses, or preferred sexual behaviors are far less important considering the violence, deaths, biases, stereotypes, and emotional cut off from one's family of origin due to the inability of allowing someone to be their true self.

I implore you to read: Nicholas M. Teich (2012-03-27). Transgender 101: A Simple Guide to a Complex Issue . I listened to a therapist tell a bisexual person that the sooner his client chooses whether it's men or women they prefer, the sooner his depression, and the deep mourning of the death of his father would clear up. 

I do not mean for this response to seem pejorative, however, research is so lacking in this area,

While this article is about intercultural studies, it does offer alternatives to the binaries Hofstede's model through the context of culture-based subjectivity. If this specific article doesn't help it might at least start you down a citation trail to work that does.

Uryu, M., Steffensen, S. V., & Kramsch, C. (2014). The ecology of intercultural interaction: timescales, temporal ranges and identity dynamics. Language Sciences, 41, 41-59.

Your question is a little confusing. There are several scales out there. However, do you want to evaluate stigma to LGB people, let say from others to them or if they feel discriminated by others given their gender expression? Therefore it would not be gender expression what would need to be evaluated but the stigma or discrimination they received. Or if people in general stigmatize or discriminate to someone based on gender expression. Those are different issues to evaluate and for me is not clear which one you are interested. The issue of particular context is also something deserves to be more specific.

Perhaps this is of interest:

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277539514001344 

Hi Gosia, we have used the scale in the paper below:

Coleman, J. M., & Hong, Y. Y. (2008). Beyond nature and nurture: The influence of lay gender theories on self-stereotyping. Self and Identity, 7(1), 34-53.

It's 11 items, rather reliable, and did a nice job for us.  On the face of it the items are quite similar to the examples you've posted and so I think it's the one you want.  

Cheers!

Robbie

Hi, 

This sounds a little bit out of my expertise area, but I can offer some help in literature and ecofeminist theory if you'd like it. While my research examines international environmental law, I take a distinctly qualitative/doctrinal approach!

In terms of the claim that liberals have a 'complex view of femininity', I would recommend reading some ecofeminist literature (if you haven't already)  concerning the notion of 'femininity,' protection' and the role of women in this approach. Some ecofeminists (it's a very broad church) criticise liberalism for adopting a project of assimilation wherein women (and other marginalised communities) are integrated into environmental projects which they contend continues to legitimise the exploitation and subordination of nonhuman nature and human/Others. I'd be very wary of referring to 'femininity' and feminine without specifying exactly what you mean by it, as these are hotly contested terms that many eco/feminists consider highly essentialising and not representative of the differences between women, dependent on class, culture, experience, and race. There is loads of work out there on this specific issue. I can point you to some if you would like.

Have you looked at any of Julie Nelson's literature on the precautionary principle and the notion of masculinity? It might help you in framing exactly what you mean by 'feminine' and non-feminine in this context. Also, Mary Mellor's work on materialist ecofeminism might be of interest.

Kind regards, and I look forward to seeing what you discover

Kate

I have been working on the representation of space in films based on Jane Austen's novels and how the directors (re) interpret the descriptions given by the author. I would suggest exploring the concept of liminality and perhaps reading articles such as this one,

Hope it helps!