Transgressing sex and gender: deconstruction zone ahead?
Article Abstract:
Sex and gender have traditionally been seen as a clear division between male and female, with no possibility of a middle ground. However, there is growing evidence that this rigid classification system may fail to properly reflect the diversity of experiences of individual sex and gender. For the transgenderist, internal gender identity is not aligned with the one society expects on the basis of genital sex. It must be recognized that transgender identity is totally separate from sexual orientation, and in many ways could make the concept of sexual orientation obsolete.
Publication Name: SIECUS Report
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0091-3995
Year: 1999
User Contributions:
Comment about this article or add new information about this topic:
The gender gap in insurance coverage for women's reproductive health
Article Abstract:
State legislators nationwide are debating issues related to reproductive health such as the necessity of coverage of contraception in an insurance policy. The provision of equitable insurance coverage of prescription contraception is being considered by an increasing number of states in what is considered a favorable trend. The necessity for such legislation and some of the problems that advocates and lawmakers have experienced in attempting to pass this legislation are discussed.
Publication Name: SIECUS Report
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0091-3995
Year: 1998
User Contributions:
Comment about this article or add new information about this topic:
Educating men in South Africa on gender issues
Article Abstract:
The implementation of a national Men As Partners Program in South Africa, which aims to educate men on gender issues, is described.
Publication Name: SIECUS Report
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0091-3995
Year: 2001
User Contributions:
Comment about this article or add new information about this topic:
- Abstracts: Trade and environment. Legal institutional aspects of river basin development. The global partnership for environment and development
- Abstracts: Legislating sexual orientation in the states. We need to conquer student silence about sexual orientation
- Abstracts: Theories, data, and potential impacts of mobile communications: a longitudinal analysis of U.S. national surveys
- Abstracts: Participatory Action Research: should social inquiry be conducted democratically? Naturalizing or Demythologizing Scientific Inquiry: Kitcher's Science, Truth and Democracy
- Abstracts: Optimal fiscal zoning when the local government is a discriminating monopolist. Fiscal policies in open cities with firms and households