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Gender (Topical Term)

Number of records used in: 85

Preferred form: Gender

See also:

Narrower heading: Gender expression
Narrower heading: Gender identity
Narrower heading: Assigned gender
Gender relations
Gender studies
Gendercide
Gender diversity
Gender binaries
Gender minorities
Gender transgression
Gender affirming surgery
Genderism
Gender ambiguity
Stealth
Passing (Gender)
Gender segregation
Transgenderism
Sex (Body)

Notes

Originally created in 1997, the Homosaurus vocabulary is an international linked data vocabulary of LGBTQ terms that is currently maintained by the Homosaurus Editorial Board.

A socially constructed system that gives meaning to masculinity and femininity and that unevenly distributes power and opportunity according to cultural interpretations of sex. As an element of personal identity, a gender is developed through the interaction of social roles and expectations, one's response to those expectations, one's physiology, and one's internal sense of self. Gender is culturally specific, meaning that different cultures have different understandings of what gender means and how many genders should be recognized.