Beyond the Binaries: Depolarizing the Categories of Sex, Sexuality, and Gender*

Lorber, Judith

doi:10.1111/j.1475-682x.1996.tb00214.x

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“…Sociologists provide several methodologies for the multidimensional categorisation of gender in research designs (Lorber, 1996). Future research can complement this study by framing the concept of gender as multidimensional, rather than polarised, categories and investigate students' perceptions involved in group work processes and peer evaluations in more nuanced detail.…”

Section: Limitations and Future Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

The effects of gender on group work process and achievement: an analysis through self‐ and peer‐assessment

Takeda

Homberg

2013

British Educational Res J

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The importance of teamwork skills as part of employability has been widely acknowledged and accompanied by active research on successful cooperative learning. However, relatively few studies have focused on the effects of gender on students' group work, and only a limited number of empirical studies exist that examine students' group work process and performance through the results of self-and peer-assessment. This study examines the effects of gender on group work process and performance using the self-and peer-assessment results of 1,001 students in British higher education formed into 192 groups. The analysis aggregates all measures on the group level in order to examine the overall group performance. Further, a simple regression model is used to capture the effects of group gender compositions. Results suggest that students in gender-balanced groups display enhanced collaboration in group work process associated with less social loafing behaviours and more equitable contributions to the group work.However, the results imply that this cooperative learning environment does not lead to higher student performance. Students' comments allow us to explore possible reasons for this finding. The results also indicate underperformance by all-male groups and reduced collaborative behaviours by solo males in male gender exception groups (i.e. groups consisting of one male student and other members being female). The results thus have implications for the composition of groups. The pedagogical implications of these findings are discussed.

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Section: Limitations and Future Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

The effects of gender on group work process and achievement: an analysis through self‐ and peer‐assessment

Takeda

Homberg

2013

British Educational Res J

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“…In the mid 1990s, authors such as Lorber (1996) called for a reconsideration of traditional gender categories. Lorber (1996) commented that in research "variations in gender displays are often ignored: A woman is assumed to be a feminine female; a man masculine male" (p. 144). Furthermore, a questioning of binary conceptions of gender is influencing other areas of health research such as HIV/AIDS (Dworkin, 2005).…”

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Help seeking for cardiac symptoms: Beyond the masculine–feminine binary

Galdas

Johnson

Percy

et al. 2010

Social Science & Medicine

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Empirical and theoretical literature suggests that stereotypical gender roles shape men's and women's health help-seeking behavior, and plays an important role in the treatment seeking delays of cardiac patients. We were interested in exploring the ways in which gender informs the experiences and help-seeking behavior of men and women who experienced the symptoms associated with acute cardiac events. We undertook 20 in-depth interviews between October 2007 and July 2008 with 11 men and 9 women recently diagnosed with an acute coronary syndrome in British Columbia, Canada. Participants were encouraged to tell their 'story' of the event that led to hospitalization and diagnosis, with a focus on the symptoms and decision making processes that occurred before and during the activation of health services: seeking the advice of others including colleagues, family members and healthcare professionals; calling 911; and attending an emergency department. Although we anticipated that distinctive patterns of help-seeking behavior aligned with stereotypical masculine and feminine ideals might emerge from our data, this was not always the case. We found some evidence of the influence of gender role ideology on the help-seeking behavior of both male and female participants. However, men's and women's experiences of seeking health care were not easily parsed into distinct binary gender patterns. Behavior that might stereotypically be considered to be 'masculine' or 'feminine' gender practice was shared by both male and female participants. Our findings undermine simple binary distinctions about gendered help-seeking prevalent in the literature, and contribute towards setting the direction of the future health policy and research agenda addressing the issue of gender and health help-seeking behavior.

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“…According to Lorber, most research designs (in sociology) assume that each person has one sex, one sexuality, and one gender (Lorber, 1996). In her later work, she argues that we need to recognize the multiplicity of genders, sexes, and sexualities, but the difficulty lies in needing categories for analysis yet at the same time deconstructing them.…”

Section: Gender As Interrational and Intersubjective: Transdisciplinamentioning

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Gender and sports studies: an historical perspective

Bandy

2014

Mov Sport Sci/Sci Mot

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Abstract. In the late 1970s, scholars from North America began to incorporate gender in their critique of contemporary sport, and soon thereafter European sports scholars also embraced gender as a transformative concept in the discipline of Sports Studies. Initially, scholars focused on the female athlete as a subject from a disciplinary perspective. With the inclusion of gender in the 1980s, scholars turned from a "categoric" to a "relational" perspective and gender was thus expanded beyond that of a distinct category and redefined as a dynamic, relational process that introduced new directions, theories, and paradigms for research in Sports Studies as the focus shifted from the female athlete to a cultural critique of sport using interdisciplinary and cultural studies perspectives. Most recently gender has been viewed as both interrelational and intersubjective as scholars began to challenge the universalizing nature of feminism and its uniformity in the 1990s. A paradigmatic shift toward intersectionality emerged and enabled scholars to critique the view that gender was monolithic; rather they purported that it intersects with a number of other dimensions of human experience and identity such as age, ethnicity, race, and social class in sport. This shift encouraged a more trandisciplinary and transnational focus concerning the study of sport. This perspective has paralleled and contributed to the inclusion of such topics as language, power, narrativity, and representation and has yet again transformed the scholarly analysis of sport.

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Beyond the Binaries: Depolarizing the Categories of Sex, Sexuality, and Gender*

Cited by 128 publications

References 43 publications

The effects of gender on group work process and achievement: an analysis through self‐ and peer‐assessment

The effects of gender on group work process and achievement: an analysis through self‐ and peer‐assessment

Help seeking for cardiac symptoms: Beyond the masculine–feminine binary

Gender and sports studies: an historical perspective

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