People represent many social categories, including gender categories, in essentialist terms: They see category members as sharing deep, nonobvious properties that make them the kinds of things they are. The present research explored the consequences of this mode of representation for social inferences. In two sets of studies, participants learned (a) that they were similar to a member of the ot...

Media arts question boundaries and definitions of societal concepts, including notions conceptions gender. As part a new series on media art gender by the platform Art in Flux, Gender*uck raised questions representation. Hand hand with talks event at The National Gallery, presented next generation artists investigating concepts an online exhibition. These young...

In an experiment, the authors investigated the impact of gender categorization on face recognition. Participants were familiarized with composite androgynous faces labeled with either a woman's first name (Mary) or a man's first name (John). The results indicated that participants more quickly eliminated faces of the opposite gender than faces of the same gender than the face they were looking ...

This article considers the representation of war in Vietnamese cinema by engaging in a gendered exploration of the legacy of war. By taking gender as an analytical category and cinema as a form of representation, the article examines the largely unexplored issue of the impact of war on female identity in Vietnam. Through the discussion of two recent Vietnamese films, – Dò•i cát (Sandy Lives) an...

A number of researchers have provided an overview of the progress of research focusing on gender and educational leadership/management in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries (Bjork, 2000; Blackmore, 2006; Shakeshaft, 1993, 1999; Tallerico & Blount, 2004; Zheng, 1999). Shakeshaft (1999 p. 522) casts descriptive studies of representation generally ‘documenting the absence of women’ as an ear...

The conference theme this year was “Gender, Politics, and Everyday Life: Power, Resistance Representation” [...]