Categorizing Gender in Queer Yangon

Automatically Categorizing Written Texts by Author Gender

The problem of automatically determining the gender of a document's author would appear to be a more subtle problem than those of categorization by topic or authorship attribution. Nevertheless, it is shown that automated text categorization techniques can exploit combinations of simple lexical and syntactic features to infer the gender of the author of an unseen formal written document with ap...

Categorizing Coming Out: The Modern Televisual Mediation of Queer Youth Identification

Categorizing with gender: does implicit grammatical gender affect semantic processing in 24-month-old toddlers?

The current study investigated the interaction of implicit grammatical gender and semantic category knowledge during object identification. German-learning toddlers (24-month-olds) were presented with picture pairs and heard a noun (without a preceding article) labeling one of the pictures. Labels for target and distracter images either matched or mismatched in grammatical gender and either mat...

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Gender transitions in later life: the significance of time in queer aging.

Concepts of time are ubiquitous in studies of aging. This article integrates an existential perspective on time with a notion of queer time based on the experiences of older transgender persons who contemplate or pursue a gender transition in later life. Interviews were conducted with male-to-female identified persons aged 50 years or older (N = 22), along with participant observation at three ...