We tested whether adults (experiment 1) and 4 - 5-year-old children (experiment 2) identify the sex of highly attractive faces faster and more accurately than not very attractive faces in a reaction-time task. We also assessed whether facial masculinity/femininity facilitated identification of sex. Results showed that attractiveness facilitated adults' sex classification of both female and male...

This study consists of an analysis of the novel Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters, in terms of cross-dressing as self-representation. The study aims to emphasise how cross-dressing can be significant when expressing one’s gender identity, by examining the gender identity and sexual orientation of the male impersonator Nancy Astley/Nan King and how she reacts to her own queerness. With the use ...

Juxtaposing data from Dubrovnik studies based on archival material and Dubrovnik narrative sources, the paper points to the complexity of that urban community's cultural horizons during the 15th and 16th century with a special focus on women's history. The parallel existence of diverse frames of reference within which women's lives were conceptualised — legal, economic, social and cultural, ecc...

The article explores the disabled female gaze through titular character in Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale “The Little Mermaid” (1837), arguing that sight is a strategy of empowerment challenges able-bodied male gaze. tale—and its accompanying visual forms, including sculpture and illustration—is placed dialogue with Literary Disability Studies, examining how little mermaid depicted as an ...

Women’s marital status has always been a controversial issue for the public opinion over centuries because woman’s gender almost brings her certain limitations and expectations. The norms imposed on people stereotyped roles usually determine attitude towards women in many countries. This study aims to examine two dramatic works “The Mary Play” Roaring Girl” which show both Medieval Early Modern...

The aim of the study is to evaluate the usefulness of the Bem Sex Role Inventory (BSRI; Bem, 1974), an overall measurement of the cultural construct of masculinity and femininity, in the psychological assessment of Spanish transsexuals. Seventy male-to-female transsexuals (MF), 51 female-to-male transsexuals (FM), 77 control men, and 79 control women completed the Spanish version of the BSRI. S...

Sex role orientation, i.e., a person's masculinity or femininity, influences cognitive and emotional performance, like biological sex. While it is now widely accepted that sex differences are modulated by the hormonal status of female participants (menstrual cycle, hormonal contraceptive use), the question, whether hormonal status and sex hormones also modulate participants sex role orientation...

Symmetry and masculinity in human faces have been proposed to be cues to the quality of the owner. Accordingly, symmetry is generally found attractive in male and female faces and femininity is attractive in female faces. Women’s preferences for male facial masculinity vary in ways that may maximise genetic benefits to women’s offspring. Here we examine sameand opposite-sex preferences for both...