Search results

constitutes a patriarchal attack by males upon the female essence. This is often considered to be part of trans-exclusionary radical feminist (TERF) ideology...

masculine, but in the mystical tradition of the Kabbalah, the Shekhinah represents the feminine aspect of God's essence. However, Judaism traditionally holds...

because of their love of the feminine, and the homosexuals or transsexuals who may cross-dress. Although Prince identified with the concept of androgyny...

children. The theory of "womb envy" or "vaginal envy" is criticized based on the position that it indicates how the essence of being a woman lies in...

involved in the lengger lanang tradition is somewhat reminiscent of transsexuality and cross-dressing behavior. A male lengger dancer would wear traditional...

2018. Retrieved 21 April 2019. Stoljar, Natalie (1995). "Essence, Identity, and the Concept of Woman". Philosophical Topics. 23 (2): 261–293. doi:10...

heavily based in the observation of transsexuality, is one of the earliest affirmations of the everyday production of gender in social interactions, and...

in coining the term was to differentiate Indigenous concepts of gender and sexuality from those of non-Native lesbians and gays and to replace the pejorative...

gender expression by an individual that does or will not match masculine or feminine gender norms. A gender-nonconforming person may be variant in their gender...

philosophies of gender identity (specifically the feminine essence philosophy) are an obstacle to the abolition of gender and a reversion to a sex-based society...

known as gender binarism) is the classification of gender into two distinct forms of masculine and feminine, whether by social system, cultural belief, or...

Gauntlett). The idea of identity as free and flexible and gender as performative, not an essence, has become one of the foundations of queer theory. Inside/Out:...

heterosexuality and her feminine appearance". Jeffreys wrote in Beauty and Misogyny (2005): In 1973 I gave up beauty practices as part of [the feminist] movement...

later addition. The use of the feminine title episcopa or presbytera has however been traditionally reserved for the wife or widow of Christian clergy since...

sexual identity that is not heterosexual. The term helps define the "concept of what is the norm and how a particular group is different from that norm"...

with the Absolute. The Tantric idea of arriving at unity of the feminine and the masculine, with the "divine feminine" or the "unified divine consciousness"...

stories. The Endless are a family of seven anthropomorphic personifications of universal concepts, around whom much of the series revolves. From eldest...

advocates of androgyny, although most believe that a "mixing" of both feminine and masculine traits is desirable—essentially the creation of androgynous...

French feminists approached feminism with the concept of Écriture féminine, which translates as 'feminine writing'. Hélène Cixous argues that writing and...