21st Century neo-androgyny: A measure of de-gendered androgyny.

Abstract

The last 45 years of gender research into the benefits of psychological androgyny have resulted in a mélange of results and the picture for androgyny has not always clearly emerged as positive. One is required to ask whether or not the construct of androgyny as some mystical combination of masculine and feminine characteristics is any longer theoretically defensible. The study of sex and gender should perhaps be charged with offering a new theoretical framework from which a coherent, consistent, and lasting concept of androgyny may be derived, and from which the androgyny hypothesis may be re-examined and perhaps reborn.