Culture specifies standards for women’s and men’s body appearance and display. In Western cultures, these standards are both concentrated and ubiquitous in the media, represented as gendered body ideals for citizens to aspire toward. Because gendered body ideals are revered, individuals try to construct and portray their body consistently with these ideals. Furthermore, because gendered body id...

Effects of Gendered Racism on Health Practices of Black Women: A Racial and Gender Identity Model Shatina D. Williams, M.S. Dissertation Chair: Janet E. Helms, Ph.D. 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, ...

As gender constructs could be disseminated through language, English textbooks a fertile arena to maintain or deconstruct traditional constructs. Since seventh grade students are in their stage assert sexual identity, exposure textbook affect perception of gendered positions the society. The present study purposefully aimed analyzed language used for Grade 7, because book was published by Indon...

This study investigated whether or not gender-based differences are evident in the language (North American English) children use to tell a story. An equal number of boys and girls representing 3 developmental stages (7;2, 10;10, and 13;8) were asked to perform a 3 part guided narrative task, which involved telling 3 stories from 2 wordless picture books. The language of the first and third nar...

be a useful addition to anyone’s bookshelf. In the first chapter, sexuality is introduced as more than just the biological act of sex. Instead, the authors describe how sexuality is a fluid concept that has changed over time as humans have evolved both physically and societally. Later chapters describe sex specifics in both male and female bodies, leading to a discussion of sex, gender, and tra...

Forty participants (20 male) had 3-minute conversations with trained male and female communication partners in a repeated-measures, within-subject design. Eighty 3-minute conversations were transcribed and coded for dependent clauses, fillers, tag questions, intensive adverbs, negations, hedges, personal pronouns, self-references, justifiers, and interruptions. Results suggest no significant ch...

Continuing the theme of our special issue (Calogero and Tylka, Sex Roles, 63, 1-5. 2010), we present a collection of novel studies that detail how gendered experiences of the body constrain and impact body image. Specifically, Part II of the special issue explores gendered body image from vantage points of intersectionality and diversity—importantly recognizing that culturally-prescribed appear...