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Spencer, Stephen Brent. "Gender and identity." The Ohio State University, 1993. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1316619291.
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Bazán, Ramírez Aldo. "Regarding gender relations: Gender identity or gender interaction styles?" Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 1996. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/102283.
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This study discusses sorne assumptions from the social determinism in the construction of gender roles, gender-typed identities, and gender relarions inequities. Ir is proposed that gender sryles of interaction are relatively invariant forms or dispositions related ro specific contexts of social interaction. Iris not enough ro say that socialization factors such as the family, school, mass media, and rhe inirial social group relations generare a typed gender identity or gender seggregation, but it is also necessary ro make explicit how preferences, beliefs and interaction sryles are structured according ro rhose factors and how these interactive tendencies are built u pon social interaction situations as part of a developmental process.<br>En el presente trabajo se discuten algunos supuestos del determinismo social en la construcción de roles de género e identidades genéricas estereotipadas y de desigualdad en las relaciones intergéneros. Se propone que los estilos de interacción de los géneros se constituyen como formas o disposiciones relativamente invariantes en relación a contextos particulares de interacción social. No es suficiente afirmar que los factores de socialización y las primeras relaciones en grupo social, generan una identidad genérica estereotipada o de segregación de géneros, sino que es necesario también explicitar el cómo se estructuran preferencias, creencias y estilos de interacción de acuerdo a tales factores y, cómo estas tendencias interactivas se constituyen a partir de situaciones de interacción social y como proceso de desarrollo.
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Marshall, Harriette. "Gender identity and speech." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/19104.
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Jeanes, Ruth. "Tackling gender : girls, football and gender identity construction." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2006. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/7859.
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This thesis examines the construction of young girls' gender identity and the influence participation in football can have on this process. Increasing numbers of girls are now participating in football, a sport which has traditionally been connected with extreme forms of masculinity. The thesis examines the influence participation in football by girls can have on altering dominant and traditional gender assumptions and breaking down the construction of football as a masculine sport. The thesis utilises a feminist post-structural theoretical positioning to enable an understanding of girls' identities as diverse and multiple. The literature reviewed firstly provides an examination of identity theory, girl culture and the influence on global discourses and local mechanisms on girls' gender identity construction. The second phase of the review examines the relevance of sport to the dominant gender order, girls' participation in sport and the potential of sport and football to offer a space in which girls and women can engage in alternative discourses to contest dominant gender values. The methodological approach draws on feminism and the sociology of childhood. A six-month ethnographic study was undertaken in a single school site with thirteen 10 and 11 year old girls. A multi- method, child friendly approach was used to encourage full and direct communication for the girls involved. The study illustrated the diversity and complexity of young girls' gender identities. Global discourses influenced their belief and assumptions surrounding their visual identities, while their friends provided key sources of information about how these should be interpreted in their everyday lives. Football fitted into the girls' feminine gender identities fairly smoothly. Although some of the girls used football to construct `alternative' identities, their participation had little impact on altering either dominant belief surrounding football or reshaping restrictive elements of feminine identities. Despite this the girls' experiences of football were positive, allowing them an open space where contestation of their own negative views about themselves occurs and extend the scripts regarding their own sports abilities and the meaning of football to them. Even when appearing to contest the masculine construction of sport though, the girls' experiences remained highly constrained by gender discourses.
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Walks, Michelle. "Gender identity and in/fertility." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/44284.
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Pregnancy is considered a feminine experience in mainstream Canadian culture. Babies identified as female at birth are expected to grow up to become feminine heterosexual mothers. This research considers the desires, choices, and experiences of individuals who were identified as female at birth, but who do not identify as feminine heterosexual women; this dissertation focuses on the reproductive desires, choices, and experiences of butch lesbians, transmen, and genderqueer individuals in British Columbia.
Three methods and two distinct populations formed this research. Participant observation was conducted in 21 cities across southern BC. Questionnaires were completed by 28 health care professionals (HCPs), and by 46 butch lesbian, transmen, and genderqueer (BTQ) individuals. Face-to-face interviews were conducted with 10 HCPs, 8 BTQ individuals who had experienced at least one successful pregnancy, and 4 BTQ individuals who had either experienced or been diagnosed with a condition linked to infertility.
What I found, is that for many BTQ individuals, reproduction associated with the female body (ie: pregnancy and breastfeeding) is not exclusively considered a feminine desire or experience. In fact, what I discovered is that BTQ individuals who experience pregnancy and breastfeeding explicitly challenge the cultural fetish associating femininity with reproduction (including pregnancy, breastfeeding, mothering, and fertility). Thus, I highlight not only the typically ignored desire and achievement of pregnancy of BTQ individuals, but also how BTQ individuals have experienced breastfeeding, how some BTQ parents raise queerlings, and how some BTQ individuals have negotiated diagnoses and experiences of infertility.
Overall, I highlight the unique and various expectations and experiences that butch lesbians, transmen, and genderqueer individuals have regarding their ‘female’ (and potential) biological reproduction. In the end, I hope that by presenting the diverse reproductive experiences, desires, and choices of BTQ individuals, that I can foster more of an understanding of these experiences, desires, choices, and individuals, and thus challenge the cultural fetish that links femininity with ‘female’-associated reproduction. Moreover, I offer recommendations for health care professionals in an effort to foster more understanding in BTQ health care, as well as help to facilitate more queer competent health care professionals.
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Ramón, Bettina L. "Composing, gender, and composing gender : the construction of gender variances in online spaces /." View online, 2009. http://ecommons.txstate.edu/engltad/17.
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Tsang, Ching-man Irene, and 曾靜雯. "Gender and gender roles in Virginia Woolf." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2004. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B38598747.
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Yu, Lu, and 于璐. "Gender-related behavior, gender identity, and psychological adjustmentin Chinese children." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2009. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B43085659.
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Joffe, Arlene Ora. "Psychological gender : the relationship between sex-role and gender identity." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/14275.
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Bibliography: leaves 100-113.<br>The study is based on psychoanalytic theory of the development of gender identity. The basic premise is that there are at least two levels of gender-related identity, viz. gender identity and sex-role. Thirty-three male and thirty-nine female university students participated in the study. They were asked to complete questionnaires designed to measure gender identity, sex-role and sexual orientation. Gender identity was measured by means of fantasy patterns which emerge in story-telling. The Bern Sex-Role Inventory was used to measure sex-role. Subjects' sexual orientations were described with the aid of the Kinsey Seven-Point Rating Scale. Results indicate a number of unanticipated complexities which need further investigation. The type of picture used in the measurement of gender identity seems to determine whether or not a subject's true gender identity will emerge or whether it will be distorted. There is a relationship between sex-role and gender identity, but it is indirect. The gender identities of persons whose sex-roles are feminine, masculine or undifferentiated tend to conform to biological sex. Persons whose sex-roles are androgynous, however, tend towards feminine gender identity whatever their biological sex. Further research is recommended to confirm or refute these results.
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Kale, Nulufer. "The Politicization Of Gender: From Identity Politics To Post-identity." Master's thesis, METU, 2011. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12613815/index.pdf.
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The aim of this thesis study is to understand the significance of today&rsquo<br>s feminist politics in Turkey for post-identity politics. When it is considered that identity politics is being widely practiced today, whereas there is still much vagueness regarding the ways of doing post-identity politics, in order to achieve the aim of this study it becomes necessary to make a critique of identity politics and to reveal post-identitarian tendencies through this critique of identity-based political mobilization. In this study, feminist identity politics is analyzed and criticized from the perspective of Judith Butler, who is a poststructuralist feminist questioning identity and its relation to gender politics. These issues are questioned through qualitative research method and semi-structured in-depth interviews are used as the data gathering technique. Five in-depth interviews were conducted with women who consider themselves feminist. The interviews aim at providing individual narrations of the participants to be exposed to deconstruction later on through the analysis process. Therefore, participants are not asked direct and categorical questions about their ideas on specific issues<br>instead, they are encouraged to talk about how they perceive the gendered world around them and how they respond to it and how these ideas are transferred to the political arena. It was found that the participants perceived sex, gender and sexuality in a dualistic framework to a certain extent and this relative fluidity enables them to realize the importance of doing post-identity politics, but they do not have a tendency to transfer this to the political arena in the near future.
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Novotny, Bethany A. "Understanding the Fluidity of Gender Identity and Sexual Identity Formation." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2018. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/3153.
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Counselors must have innovative knowledge and approaches regarding the multidimensional aspects of sexuality and gender identity. This session provides an overview of the five dimensions continuum model of biology, gender identity, gender expression, sexual/affectional orientation and sexual behavior. A case study is provided as an example of using the model with clients. The presentation will focus on the application of this multilayered approach in conceptualizing clients who identify as a sexual minority.
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Milsom, Zoe. "Interwar headmistresses : gender, identity, space-place." Thesis, University of Winchester, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.560576.
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This thesis examines the gendered professional identities of six headmistresses who were president of the Association of Headmistresses (AHM) during the interwar period and who taught in four London schools using the concepts of space-place. It explores the way headmistresses situated space-place as a central part of their professional identities. The study makes extensive use of a range of published and unpublished sources, including photographs, diaries, school magazines, newspapers, annual reports and minutes of the AHM to understand how headmistresses used concepts of space-place to confirm and enhance their professional lives in keeping with more general gendered discourses of the time. Three major recurrent themes run throughout the thesis. First is the importance of space-place, as part of our identities. Influenced by the work of Doreen Massey the thesis discusses space-place as a meeting up of social interactions, a sphere of possibility. Each archival chapter discusses space-place in relation to a spatial model used as a lens through which to analyse the professional lives of the six headmistresses. The first archival chapter examines the space-place of the Association and the headmistresses’ corporate identity leading on to a further three main chapters structured successively around the spatial arenas of home, nation and the transnational. These three chapters begin with a discussion of the way in which these spatial arenas are performed within the headmistresses’ schools. Second the chapters reflect on the identity of the headmistresses themselves both individually and collectively. Finally the chapters analyse the way in which the education offered by the headmistresses aimed to construct the model citizen in-line with the discourses and social practices associated with that spatial arena. Drawing together the array of materials and the synthesis of feminist geo-political, historical theories this thesis argues that each headmistress drew on different spatial models to varying extents to legitimise their professional identity. In doing so the thesis highlights the symbiotic relation between space-place and identity.
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Cook, Kristopher J. "Gender identity disorder a misunderstood diagnosis /." Huntington, WV : [Marshall University Libraries], 2004. http://www.marshall.edu/etd/descript.asp?ref=421.
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ONeal, Rhiannon Patricia. "Gender, Identity and Tabletop Roleplay Games." OpenSIUC, 2011. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/760.
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Identity Performativity theory is relatively new to the field of linguistics and as such has been the subject of a growing number of research in linguistics. Most popularly, focus on performativity has been the discursive construction of gendered identity/identities. Though a number of studies have sought to examine the role language performance plays in construction, a surprising few have aimed to look at activities focused on the intentional creation and maintenance of identities in a specifically performative context such as: improvisational acting and roleplaying games. This study uses a social constructionist framework through discourse analysis to examine a community of practice centered around the performance of multiple roles during a 9 hour session of Dungeons and Dragons, a tabletop roleplaying game, in order to see what strategies players employed to call out specific gendered roles and what those strategies might assume about identity construction. Primarily, how does language choice illustrate the theory that identity is not only co-constructed, but that each person embodies a series of sometimes conflicting gender identities that are often contested? The results of the research show evidence that each person constructs for themselves and others not one, but multiple, identities in the course of conversation and often for different purposes.
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Ryan, Michelle K. "A gendered self or a gendered context? : a social identity approach to gender differences /." View thesis entry in Australian Digital Theses Program, 2003. http://thesis.anu.edu.au/public/adt-ANU20060210.091938/index.html.
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Tsang, Ching-man Irene. "Gender and gender roles in Virginia Woolf." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2004. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B38598747.
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Yu, Lu. "Gender-related behavior, gender identity, and psychological adjustment in Chinese children." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2009. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B43085659.
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Leonard, Robin L. "Aggression: Relationships with Sex, Gender Role Identity, and Gender Role Stress." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2005. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/1054.
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Sex, gender-role identity, and gender-role stress were assessed in terms of their relationship to observed gender differences in self-reported aggression. Physical and verbal aggression were explored, as well as the affective component of anger and cognitive component of hostility. The role of emotional intelligence in these relationships was also evaluated, as a possible correlate to the gender-related variables. The results indicated that both gender-role stress and gender-role identification were significantly associated with all components of aggression; however, only physical aggression was related to sex. Emotional intelligence was linked to sex and gender-role identity but not with gender-role stress. The results also suggested that emotional intelligence predicts physical aggression, anger, and hostility in addition to the variance explained by gender variables, presenting negative relationships with each of these variables.
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Harper-Bisso, Susan. "Negotiating gender identity and social identity in an American NeoPagan community." Ann Arbor, Mich. : ProQuest, 2006. http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/fullcit/3196541.
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Thesis (Ph.D. in Anthropology)--S.M.U.<br>Title from PDF title page (viewed July 6, 2007). Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-11, Section: A, page: 4075. Adviser: Caroline Brettell. Includes bibliographical references.
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Reder, Miriam Asya. "Gender Identity, Ethnic Identity, and Self-Esteem in Latino Adolescent Males." DigitalCommons@CalPoly, 2014. https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/theses/1159.
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The relationship between gender identity and psychological adjustment has long been investigated, but it is only in the 21st century that gender identity has been examined as a multi-faceted construct. According to Egan and Perry (2001), there are five dimensions comprising a person’s gender identity and they have demonstrated a significant relationship between these dimensions and youth’s psychological adjustment. Three of their gender identity constructs are pertinent to this study: gender typicality, gender contentedness, and felt pressure. While subsequent studies have had similar significant results (Carver, Yunger, & Perry, 2003; Yunger, Carver, & Perry, 2004), one study found that felt pressure was not negatively correlated with adjustment in minority youth, including Latinos, as it was with majority White samples from the previous studies (Corby, Hodges, & Perry, 2007).
Minority youth face more pressure to conform to gender stereotypes (Corby et al., 2007) and Latinos in particular face more rigid gender stereotypes than European American cultures (Corona, Gonzalez, Cohen, Edwards, & Edmonds, 2009). While having a strong ethnic identity has been significantly correlated with self-esteem in Latinos (Umaña-Taylor, 2004), the relationship between ethnic identity, gender identity, and self-esteem in Latino youth have been underrepresented in the literature (Mora, 2012). Since Latino male youth in particular are at-risk for low-self esteem (Twenge & Crocker, 2000) and self-esteem is a protective factor in adolescents (Hosogi, Okada, Fujii, Noguchi, & Watanabe, 2012), it is important to pinpoint variables that are related to high self-esteem.
The purpose of this study is to explore the relationship between ethnic identity, gender identity, and self-esteem in an understudied population in the literature. The sample consisted of 55 males, aged 10-14, who are members of a school-based intervention program for boys at-risk of gang membership. The majority of boys were of Latino heritage. It was hypothesized that gender typicality and gender contentedness would be significantly correlated with self-esteem, and that ethnic identity would mediate the relationship between felt pressure and self-esteem. Statistical analysis yielded partial support for the hypothesis. Implications and future directions are discussed.
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Gammon, Patrice M. "Understanding gender variation : a visual perspective." Virtual Press, 2008. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1397371.
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This project is an attempt to present a visual representation of gender variation. Not everyone identifies as either "male" or "female." Likewise not everyone's gender corresponds to their biological sex. Gender variation is a difficult concept to both understand and explain, in part because our vocabulary only offers the binary opposites "male" and "female". Words used to describe someone outside this gender dichotomy are confusing, used inconsistently or derogatory in nature. The project proposes that gender is a continuum and offers a possible visual representation. My hope is that this effort will enable us to better conceptualize the in-between experience as a precursor to developing more meaningful language around this topic. The written document includes a review of literature, an explanation of methods used to create the project, discussion of the results, and a final overview. The actual creative project itself is a short video found on the accompanying DVD.<br>Department of Telecommunications
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Sloan, Jesse Daniel. "The gendered altar Wiccan concepts of gender and ritual objects /." Orlando, Fla. : University of Central Florida, 2008. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/CFE0002176.
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Sukovic, Masa. "Hysterectomies and gender identity among Serbian women." [College Station, Tex. : Texas A&M University, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-1615.
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Day, Elizabeth 1965. "Delusions of gender : sex, identity and intersubjectivity." Monash University, School of Political and Social Inquiry, 2001. http://arrow.monash.edu.au/hdl/1959.1/8524.
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Murphy, Samantha Louise. "Parenting the stillborn: gender, identity and bereavement." Thesis, University of Surrey, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.493244.
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A sociological framework for explaining parental experiences of stillbirth is presented. Foregrounded is gender, and from an analysis of 39 interviews with 12 sets of bereaved parents and 16 mothers (22 of whom suffered a stillbirth and six of whom a neonatal death), comes a sociological perspective on the reasons why men and women experience stillbirth in different ways.
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Coulter, Sophie. "Parenting a child with gender identity issues." Thesis, University of East London, 2010. http://roar.uel.ac.uk/3686/.
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Much of the literature on children and young people with gender identity issues focuses on aetiology. Within such studies, parents are often pathologised and implicated in 'causing' their child's gender identity issues. There is very little research specifically with parents exploring their experience of having a child with gender identity issues. As such, this study interviewed twelve parents about their experience of having a child with gender identity issues and adopted a grounded theory methodology. Parents talked about their experiences within the framework of a 'journey' and identified a number of contexts which they found themselves interacting with. Throughout the 'journey' parents identified a number of issues, challenges and dilemmas that they had to manage. The findings of the study highlighted the complexity of the situation that the parents were faced with and the isolation that they felt in dealing with these issues. The analysis suggested that placing the parent and their family within a wider social, cultural and temporal context may allow for their issues to be responded to in a more holistic and thoughtful way. The results of the study intimate a number of recommendations for future research and suggestions for services that work with parents.
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Siverino, Bavio Paula. "Bill for a gender identity peruvian law." Derecho & Sociedad, 2017. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/117918.
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The author proposes the text for a gender identity law based on the parameters of conventionality of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and experiences of comparative law on the basis of depathologization trans identities.<br>La autora propone el texto para una ley de identidad de género basado en los parámetros de convencionalidad de la Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos y las experiencias del derecho comparado sobre la base de la despatologización de las identidades trans.
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Mitchell, J. M. "Gender and identity in Philip Sidney's Arcadia." Thesis, University of Sussex, 1985. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.370418.
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Hatfield, Matthew Gene, and Matthew Gene Hatfield. "Anesthesia Providers' Discovery of Patients' Gender Identity." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/625382.
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Multiple studies show that transgender patients face disparities in healthcare and delay seeking treatment due to fear of discrimination, stigma, and lack transgender competency among healthcare providers. Transgender patients can be considered invisible and therefore increased provider competency may not appear warranted, but current research suggests otherwise
Purpose: The purpose of this project is twofold: 1) to review the currently employed methods of
how CRNAs obtain gender identity information, and 2) determine how CRNAs perceive the need to deliver competent and compassionate anesthesia care to the transgender patient.
Setting: The setting for administering the survey was determined by the respondents.
Participants
The participants of the study consisted of CRNAs. Participants were recruited through a
purchased listserv from the American Association of Nurse Anesthetist. Methods
A non-experimental, quantitative descriptive methodology was employed to explore the potential need to increase transgender awareness in the preoperative setting
Results: The number of surveys distributed via the American Association of Nurse Anesthetists
was 1,000 with 45 surveys completed. Findings conclude that gender identity information is discovered through the medical record over 60% of the time and that most CRNAs are not
comfortable asking patients about their gender identity. The open-text question asking CRNAs to provide a few words discussing the importance of the issue yielded four commonalities: (1) it matters; (2) just let me do my job; (3) not important; and (4) potentially stigmatizing,
Conclusions: Although anesthesia providers learn about gender identity through the medical record,
this disconnect and level of discomfort in asking tough questions further removes the CRNA from developing a more trusting and respectful relationship during the perioperative period. Evidence from the survey establishes the need to increase cultural competency and training among anesthesia providers regarding the transgender community. However, the open-ended responses provided by the participants exposed potentially stigmatizing content and does not exemplify the standardized educational framework which are discussed in The Essentials for each degree in nursing (AACN, 2008; AACN, 2011).
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Sultan, Hazar. "Gender-queer Identity and Resistance to Gender Binary in Andrea Gibson's Poetry." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Institutionen för kultur och lärande, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-29630.
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The question of gender, specifically gender identity, is prominent in today’s society. It is highly debated and through the development of queer theory it is gaining more academic recognition. However, there is a gap regarding representation of the gender-queer identity of one contemporary poet, Andrea Gibson. Gibson provides a much needed perspective and voice in society and scholarly debates. This is why this essay uses queer theory along with Kate Bornstein and Judith Butler to examine three poems by Gibson, “Swing-Set, “The Jewelry Store” and “A Genderful Pep-Talk for my Younger Self”. The essay analyses the ways Gibson, through poetry, formulates a gender-queer identity and thus questions the generic gender binary system.
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Le, Roux Niccie. "Gender variance in childhood/adolescence : gender identity journeys not involving physical intervention." Thesis, University of East London, 2013. http://roar.uel.ac.uk/3493/.
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Much of the current literature on gender-variant children and young people focuses on aetiology and developmental outcomes in adolescence, whereas their developmental experiences have been neglected. Furthermore, there is little understanding about the experiences of gender-variant youth for whom gender reassignment does not offer a straightforward solution. This qualitative study interviewed 10 gender-variant young people (Mean age = 20; range 17-27) who were not actively pursuing gender reassignment. The aim was to gain a better understanding of the developmental process of their gender identity development and how they made sense of their gender variance; the challenges that they faced; the resources that they drew upon; and what is important to them. A grounded theory methodology was adopted. The period between the approximate ages of 9 and 14 years was identified as crucial in their gender identity development and as a significant developmental challenge. A widening social gap between male and female gender roles and an emergent homosexual identity influenced how they made sense of their gender-variant expression and their bodily development, which in turn was situated within a context of widespread social exclusion. This promoted a profound lack of social belonging, which for most translated into a sense of not belonging in their bodies. A transgender identity afforded social membership, but brought with it a variety of challenges. A range of gender identities and views on gender reassignment were identified, that do not neatly fit into current conceptions of desisting and persisting gender dysphoria. Education on gender variance within the public, educational and health domain was an important priority for the participants. The findings of this study contribute to our understanding of the developmental trajectories of gender variant youth. It also intimates a number of recommendations for future research and clinical practice.
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Fong, Ho-yin Ian, and 方浩然. "Odd couples: questioning sexual identity." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2000. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31952586.
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Koch, Adina Ora. "Gender Transcendence: The Social Production of Gender in Queer Communities." Thesis, Boston College, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/2507.
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Thesis advisor: Leslie Salzinger<br>Over a period of eight months, I conducted an ethnographic comparative study in a northeastern metropolitan area, identifying and exploring a variety of non-normative social spaces regarding both gender and sexuality. I focus this research on comparing two different non-normative communities of gender and sexuality, the queer and the lesbian communities. By concentrating on spaces populated by those who identify as queer, I witness and discuss the process of identity formation. Negotiation of both tangible and theoretical spaces contributes to the operationalization of queer as a category of identity. Using social space bound by identity as a unifying factor, I share observations of time spent in lesbian community, where intricacies of queerness, both as critique and as category of identity, were illuminated. The meaning of the theoretical construct of queer as explained in the literature and the experience of queer as an identity within community have areas of disconnect to which I draw attention in this paper. I interpret community space as giving power and visibility to the experience of those who live outside of, or between, gender norms in an experience that is unrecognized within mainstream heteronormative culture. I found this space creates a voice for a more encompassing and liberating embodiment of gender than that found in mainstream western society with its adherence<br>Thesis (MA) — Boston College, 2011<br>Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences<br>Discipline: Sociology
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Ryan, Michelle K., and M. Ryan@exeter ac uk. "A gendered self or a gendered context? A social identity approach to gender differences." The Australian National University. Faculty of Science, 2003. http://thesis.anu.edu.au./public/adt-ANU20060210.091938.
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This thesis examines the way in which traditional accounts of gender differences in the self-concept have relied on distal explanatory factors, and have thus conceptualised the gendered self as stable across both time and situation. This notion of
a stable, gendered self has been implicated as underlying of a range of psychological gender differences (e.g., Cross & Madson, 1997), such as those in moral reasoning (e.g., Gillian, 1982) and ways of knowing (e.g., Belenky et al., 1989). As a result, these
behaviours are also seen to be stable across time and context.¶
An alternative perspective is investigated, which looks to social identity theory and self-categorisation theory for a conceptualisation of both gender and the self-concept
as being malleable and context-dependent (e.g., Turner et al., 1987). The social identity perspective describes the way in which proximal aspects of the social context affect the expression of gender-related behaviours, attitudes, and beliefs. In this way, the social identity perspective provides an analysis of group membership, group norms, and social influence which can not only account for the differences that are observed between men
and women, but can also offer an analysis of the context-dependence of these difference and an approach by which gender differences can be mollified.¶
A series of nine empirical studies are reported, investigating the way in which individuals (a) define themselves, (b) approach moral reasoning, and (c) approach
knowledge and learning, across a number of different social contexts. Together, the results suggest that the self-concept, moral orientation, and ways of knowing are neither
stable nor inherently gendered, but are malleable and dependent on the nature of the self-other relationship as defined by the proximal aspects of the social context. The implications for traditional theories of gender differences are discussed, as are the
broader implications for feminism and social change.
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Bevans, Rebecca L. "Who knows baby best? investigating connotative gender information, gender processing,and gender identification by adults /." abstract and full text PDF (free order & download UNR users only), 2008. http://0-gateway.proquest.com.innopac.library.unr.edu/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3339094.
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Campbell, Douglas Bruce. "Gender identity and "coming out" : gender identity as a variable of continued importance in the study of adult homosexual lives /." Digital version accessible at:, 1998. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/main.
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Crawley, Jocelyn Dukes. "On Gender and Identity in Three Shakespearean Texts." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2010. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/honors_theses/2.
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The purpose of the present study was to examine the role that sociocultural and political mores play in shaping male and female value systems. The aforementioned value systems were examined with respect to the role they played in the development and evolution of the individual’s self-concept as well as how such persons interacted with other individuals in context of romantic/sexual relationships. To contextualize the construction of individual and collective identity as it pertains to the amorous sphere, consideration was given to culturally bound realities such as religious and political mores as they unfolded within both the Renaissance era and world of the text as constructed by its author. Findings included a great propensity towards the silencing and subjugation of women when they entered romantic relationships with men. However, various passages and themes of the plays examined revealed that female independence and agency can be realized within the romantic sphere.
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Gray, Michael Joseph. "The relationship between gender identity and flirting style." Thesis, Arkansas State University, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1535513.
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<p> This study investigates the relationship between gender identity and flirting styles. Data analysis on a sample (<i>N</i>=227) revealed the existence of a relationship between gender identity and the sincere style and between gender identity and the physical style, but not between gender identity and the playful, polite, and traditional styles. Masculine and Androgynous individuals are more likely than Feminine or Undifferentiated individuals to employ the physical style. Androgynous individuals are more likely to employ the sincere style than masculine or undifferentiated individuals. Feminine individuals are more likely to employ the sincere style than masculine individuals. Further analysis found that there is a relationship between biological sex and the traditional style and between relationship status and the playful style. This study finds that gender identity is a better predictor of flirting style than either biological sex or relationship status, but suggests that it would be more appropriate to consider all three.</p>
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Narayan, Yasmeen. "Becoming Caribbean in contemporary London : identity, gender, sexuality." Thesis, Goldsmiths College (University of London), 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.414397.
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Greenwood, Susan Elizabeth Jane. "The British occult subculture : identity, gender and morality." Thesis, Goldsmiths College (University of London), 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.300028.
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Sohlberg, Tove. "Smoking cessation in Sweden - gender, pathways, and identity." Doctoral thesis, Stockholms universitet, Sociologiska institutionen, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-108481.
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Research on smoking has to a great deal been conducted within a public health or a medical context, or focused on policy making. Fewer studies have taken their point of departure in a social sciences context, and still fewer have analysed why individuals start and cease to smoke, and how and why smoking patterns on an aggregate level change over time and vary between different population groups. The aim of this dissertation is to analyse changes in the Swedish tobacco consumption with special emphasis at elucidating the decrease in smoking during the past half-century from different angels. Thus, the first paper explore if and how changes in smoking patterns can be understood and explained with reference to Sweden’s development as a welfare state, and in relation to socio-demographic and socio-economic circumstances. The second paper focuses on the long-term pathways to smoking cessation, by discerning several distinct trajectories from smoker to non-smoker. The third paper analyses gender differences with regard to reasons to smoke, experiences of smoking, and central elements in the cessation process. Finally, in the fourth paper, the issue of to what extent smoking cessation can be described as a process of identity change is explored. Smoking initiation and cessation vary by socio-demographic and socio-economic factors, and the rapid decrease in smoking has resulted in a rather vulnerable group of smokers in these aspects. The results also indicate that the cessation process is complex, with personal and structural factors interacting in the long-term process, leading to multiple pathways to a smoke-free life. Moreover, they point to gender differences in reasons to smoke and to quit, and in strategies to quit smoking. In addition, identity change seems to be important in remaining smoke-free. The stated inequality in gender and class points in the direction that structural changes and social policies might be of need to decrease smoking even further.<br><p>At the time of the doctoral defense, the following papers were unpublished and had a status as follows: Paper 1: Submitted. Paper 3: Accepted. Paper 4: Manuscript.</p><br>Women, Health and Substance use
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Cor, Deanna N. "Gender Identity Counselor Competency Scale| A Validation Study." Thesis, The George Washington University, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10076470.
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<p> Gender Identity Counselor Competency Scale: A Validation Study The purpose of the current study was to explore the validity of the Gender Identity Counselor Competency Scale, a measure meant to examine counselor competency for working with clients identifying as trans*. A national sample of counseling students and faculty accredited by the Council for Accreditation of Counseling & Related Programs (CACREP) was obtained. The data from 187 participants were analyzed using exploratory factor analysis during the first phase of data analysis. After extraction, two items were removed from the measure and it was renamed GICCS-Revised (GICCS-R). Three factors emerged from analysis and supported the tripartite model for multicultural counseling competencies and these factors were labeled knowledge, awareness, and skills. High internal consistency was found and evidence convergent validity was observed. Some evidence for discriminant validity was found. During the second phase of data analysis, analysis of covariance was used to explore mean differences among levels of education on overall GICCS-R scores as well as the subscale scores, while controlling for social desirability. There were group differences on the overall and subscale scores, with the exception of the awareness subscale. A hierarchal multiple regression was conducted to determine whether a set of variables (social desirability, levels of education, number of workshops attended or facilitated, and number of trans*-identified clients worked with) could predict scores on the overall GICCS-R and each subscale. The variables combined explained 45.5% of the variance on overall GICCS-R scores. Social desirability was not a significant predictor of scores. First year counseling master’s students; participants who attended or facilitated 0-4 workshops; and participants who worked with 0-1 clients were significant predictors of low overall competency scores. Levels of education and levels of experience explained a significant proportion of the variance on the knowledge and skills subscales, but not on the awareness subscale. The findings from the current study have important implications for how trans* counselor competency is measured in students and faculty. The findings also have implications for ways to improve levels competency.</p>
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Crowley, Michelle Laureen. "Sapphic experience: lesbian gender identity development and diversity." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002465.
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This dissertation explores lesbian experience, or the psychological meaning of being lesbian from the point of view of women who call themselves lesbian. The researcher suspended the binary paradigm of sex and gender, and argued that lesbians' identity development must be understood against the background of how patriarchy understands the category 'woman' through history. Towards this purpose the pOSition of women in the West, as well as contemporary images and literature about lesbians, was reviewed. On the basis of this review questions about lesbian gender construction, lesbian identity development and lesbian individuation were identified. In order to access the psychological meaning of being lesbian, or lesbian experience from the inside out, the dream-series of three lesbians constituted an empirical basis for further exploration. These dream-series were amplified with intensive face-to-face interviews, transcribed, and subjected to a hermeneutic-phenomenological inductive method. Common inter-case concerns were identified and synthesized. In dialogue with the literature reviewed, twenty-two statements of meaning about being lesbian were distilled. These revealed two possible constructions of gender for primary lesbians. In addition, primary lesbians involved in the research demonstrated remarkable flexibility with respect to their gender orientations and gender identifications, were in the process of integrating with and differentiating from different aspects of their masculine and feminine potentials, and developed and negotiated their gender identities in relationship to both their lovers and friends. The explication also revealed that participants identified with archetypal aspects of the father that their fathers' did not express, and desired archetypal aspects of the mother that their mother's did not express. Finally, in so much as the method distinguished ~ sex, sexual identity and sexual orientation from gender, gender identity, gender identification and gender orientation, it may prove useful for exploring gender in heterosexual relating.
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Camp, Margaret. "Japanese Lesbian Speech: Sexuality, Gender Identity, and Language." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/195371.
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This dissertation examines the relationship between gender and language in Japanese through the often ignored lens of sexuality. Although linguists are increasingly examining these issues for American gay, lesbian, and bisexual speakers, little similar research has been done in Japan. Lesbians, in particular, are relatively invisible in Japanese society. Examining these women, who do not fit neatly into the hegemonic gender ideology, illuminates how speakers can project a specific identity by displaying or rejecting prescriptive gender-specific linguistic norms of Japanese.I analyzed data recorded from interviews with both Japanese lesbian/bisexual and heterosexual women, looking for differences in frequency and range of use of pronouns and sentence-final particles and for phonetic differences in terms of average pitch height and width. I also considered the results of a perception experiment undertaken to investigate the effect of pitch height and width on Japanese speakers' perceptions of sexuality.Although Japanese speakers were generally unable to identify a cohesive lesbian stereotype, especially in terms of language use, the perception experiment indicated that both average pitch height and width significantly affect judgments on whether a voice sounds lesbian or heterosexual. Tokens judged to be lesbian were also judged to be more masculine and less emotional than those judged to be heterosexual. Analysis of the interview data showed that lesbian participants produced an average pitch height that was significantly lower than that of heterosexual participants. In terms of gendered morphemes, lesbians were significantly more likely to use masculine morphemes than heterosexual women, both for sentence-final particles and first-person pronouns, and were significantly less likely to use the feminine first-person pronoun <italic>atashi</italic>. Finally, correlations showed that speakers who instantiate gender through the use of gendered-morphemes also do so through manipulations of pitch.Although Japanese lesbians are still fairly closeted and interviewees maintained that there are no cultural stereotypes for this group, significant differences in pitch and gendered-morpheme usage were still apparent. These lesbian/bisexual women did not appear to be mimicking men's language, but instead seemed to be rejecting hegemonic femininity and many of the cultural and linguistic stereotypes that accompany it.
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Ali, Shainna. "Contemporary hijra identity in guyanna : colonial and postcolonial transpormations in hijra gender identity." Honors in the Major Thesis, University of Central Florida, 2010. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETH/id/1344.
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This item is only available in print in the UCF Libraries. If this is your Honors Thesis, you can help us make it available online for use by researchers around the world by following the instructions on the distribution consent form at http://library.ucf.edu/Systems/DigitalInitiatives/DigitalCollections/InternetDistributionConsentAgreementForm.pdf You may also contact the project coordinator, Kerri Bottorff, at kerri.bottorff@ucf.edu for more information.<br>Bachelors<br>Sciences<br>Anthropology
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Mok, Siu-ying Ada, and 莫少瑛. "Performing gender in "Orlando" and "The Passion"." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2004. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B29781759.
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Moore, Donna Klinefelter. "The development of the MMPI-a gender communality-male and gender communality-female scales : factor analysis and gender differentiation methods /." Connect to this resource. (Authorized users only), 1993.
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Singleton, Pamela. "Gender Ideology and Impressions Toward Opposite-Gendered Coworkers." ScholarWorks, 2020. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/7955.
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To achieve organizational effectiveness, leaders must examine what impacts productivity, such as workplace equality for women hindered to the point of exclusion and discrimination. The purpose of this correlational study was to determine if gender ideology, as the predictor variable, and male and female impressions toward an opposite-gendered coworker, as the criterion variable, predicts an individual's impressions toward an opposite-gendered coworker, in alignment with gender role theory. The Gender Role Ideology measure was used to assess perceptions about appropriate roles for men and women, and Coworker Resource Scale was used to assess the nature of coworker relationships among 203 middle- to upper-level managers. Data collection was conducted via Survey Monkey and SPSS was used to analyze the data. According to study results, there were no statistically significant correlations between the predictor and criterion variables. However, future research is warranted in relation to opposite-gendered coworkers and their gender ideologies. An in-depth examination of how gender ideologies relate to employee interaction has positive social change implications for workplace attitudes through improved employee cohesiveness as opposed to discrimination and exclusion. The proposed implications for positive social change from workplace attitude awareness include knowledge useful to employees in shifting their gender ideologies, increasing levels of employee interaction, and moving toward a more supportive and satisfactory existence in the workplace.
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Williams, Shatina. "Effects of gendered racism on health practices of Black women: A racial and gender identity model." Thesis, Boston College, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:104567.
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Thesis advisor: Janet E. Helms<br>Black women have been more likely to suffer from negative health conditions in comparison to Black men and White women. The biopsychosocial model might suggest that gendered racism and related stress may contribute to poor health, but the model has not been adapted to address the specific psychological factors that uniquely affect Black women’s health. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between gendered racism and eating and exercise practices of Black women in addition to examining racial and gender identity as potential mediators of the effects of gendered racism on health behaviors of Black women. Adult Black women (N= 153) were invited to complete measures that assessed gendered-racism experiences and stressors, racial identity (BRIAS), womanist identity (WIAS), and health behaviors. Multivariate multiple regression analyses revealed that more experiences of gendered racism were related to lower levels of emotional eating, but higher levels of uncontrolled eating and physical activity. WIAS Immersion/Emersion (idealization of women), WIAS Encounter (confusion regarding gender beliefs) and BRIAS Immersion (idealization of Black people) were significant mediators of these relationships. A post hoc canonical correlation analysis indicated that experiencing higher levels of gendered racism was related to greater use of less sophisticated racial and gender identity schemas, which were related to lower levels of emotional eating and higher levels of uncontrolled eating and physical activity. These results suggested that BRIAS and WIAS concepts should be integrated rather than treating them as separate sets of variables when investigating gendered racism. Collectively, the results of the main and post hoc analyses indicated that race and gender constructs were related to health practices, but not in explicable ways. Limitations of existing measures for studying this population are discussed and results are used to speculate about the implications of biological, psychological, and socio-cultural factors on the health engagement practices of Black women<br>Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2015<br>Submitted to: Boston College. Lynch School of Education<br>Discipline: Counseling, Developmental and Educational Psychology
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Cheung, Pui-kei Eleanor, and 張佩琦. "Gender variant people in Hong Kong: a model of gender identity formation and transformation." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2011. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B45882368.
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