Gender differences in college students' definitions and perceptions of intimacy

Article Abstract:

It is generally accepted that women have more intimate relationships than men but this result is based on research using verbal expression to define intimacy. A study with 15 female and 15 male white, single undergraduates allowed participants to establish the definition of intimacy and found that women express intimacy through verbal communication while men describe activities involving the persons in the relationship. This difference in definition may be caused by societal, homophobic aversion to male verbal affection. These different definitions should be considered when counseling.

Interpersonal relations, Sex differences (Psychology), Intimacy (Psychology), Intimacy

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Working on gender as a gender-nonconformist

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Working on gender from a gender nonconformist stance came about upon the realization that the categories of sex and sexuality are inadequate; they do not cover sexuality which is organized around dimensions other than sex. The stance challenges the idea of a 'natural' link between the way one acts and the set of sexual organs one has. It exposes and subverts the gender lenses: gender polarization, androcentrism and biological essentialism, which are so much a part of the cultural discourse and social institutions that they are taken as 'natural.'

Social aspects, Sex role, Sex roles, Sex discrimination, Sex differences, Gender identity

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Working with the light: women of vision

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Nancy Azara's aesthetics conflates feminist politics and spirituality, which is accessed through the unconscious. She chose to express her art through wood carving, using discarded wood she finds either along the streets or by the seashore. Her art works, expressing the inner life of a woman healer (a woman who heals, a healer of women) yokes together the beautiful and the brutal, for both describe the unconscious. Azara conducts workshops that do not just focus on technique, but also on the source of creativity itself.

Interview, Portrayals, Criticism and interpretation, Subconsciousness, Unconscious (Psychology), Feminism and the arts, Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.), Artistic creation, Azara, Nancy

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