| Gender is one of the universal dimensions on which status differences are based. Unlike sex, which is a biological concept, gender is a social construct specifying the socially and culturally prescribed roles that men and women are to follow. |
Androgyny RAQ
Brothersister Raphael Carter Explains all rarely or never asked Questions. There might be a good reason for this: the whole point of androgyny is to ask questions about gender that are all too ralely asked. Or do you know the difference between a ‘homovestite’, a ‘hermaphoroditus’ and a ‘scrat’ ?
A great directory organized in categories such as: documents, associations, services on the internet, culture, health and HIV information, news from France, ads online, gay homopages, and the Girl’s place.
The most comprehensive source for Canadian gay, lesbian and bisexual information. Founded in 1994, the Canadian Gay, Lesbian & Bisexual Resource Directory is an organization dedicated to the collection, compilation and distribution of information important to or of relevance to the GLB communities across Canada. The CGLBRD is a group of hard working people dedicated to bringing information about gay and gay-friendly resources, organizations and businesses to all Canadians as well as visitors to our country.
Includes some articles by Gert Hekma, chairman of Gay Studies Amsterdam. Editors: Gert Hekma and Norbert van Bemmel.
A guide to the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender communities in New Zealand. Hosted by Akiko International.
A comprehensive gay/lesbian agenda for the Netherlands. All you need to know when you are visiting Amsterdam and the rest of Holland.
A German search engine that finds almost anything related to gay and lesbian topics. It includes a directory organized by topic.
A guide to gay and lesbian business.
A search sngine for the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender internet community. It is dedicated to making G/L/B/T related Internet content much easier to find.
Books, Conferences, Educational Gender Equity, Intersexuality, Men, Rape, Sexual Abuse, Sexual Harassment, Transgendered, Women.
Blur your gender: “We create our own gender, through our own choices. Some people have changed gender by climbing over the walls that exist.” Editor: Julie Waters.
A bibliography with annotated references to the relationship between issues of gender and issues of industrial restructuring in the South and the North. The bibliography is available as a WinWord version 6 document. Editors: Diana Elson and Caroline Wright (Dep. of Sociology, University of Warwick, UK).
Part of the English Server at Carnegie Mellon University. A workspace for discussion on gender, sexuality, sexual identity and cultural practices. Provides access to local documents and links to Internet resources for Feminist, Gender and Women's Studies.
An American organization that tries to guarantee every American's civil right to express their gender orientation free of stereotypes, discrimination and violence. The goal is gender, affectional and racial equality.
GLAAD's primary focus is on the fight for fair and accurate portrayals of gays and lebians in the media and entertainment industries.
An encyclopedia of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and queer culture. It includes a social science section.
- [1997]
How Liberal is the Netherlands? - Exploring Contemporary Dutch Sexual Cultures
A paper written for the conference “Sexuality and the State in the Netherlands”, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard, April 25th, 1997. - [2004] The Decline of Sexual Radicalism in the Netherlands
In: Gert Hekma (ed.) Past and Present of Radical Sexual Politics, Amsterdam: Mosse Foundation, 2004. - The Amsterdam Bar Culture and Changing Gay/Lesbian Identities
A short history of the gay & lesbian bar culture in Amsterdam.
- [1996] Goodbye to Sex and Gender
In: Sociological Review 44(1): 1-16.
This paper refers specifically to the history of sex and to recent work in genetics in order to demonstrate that sex, like gender is a discursive construction. He argues that the sex/gender problematic is wrong to assume that biological differences are naturally given and that sex cannot operate as a natural basis in a theory of difference. - [2006] Real sex/fake gender: a reply to Robert Wilmott
In: Sociological Review 45 (1): 42-58.
A series of claims relating to the sociological problematic of sex/gender are made by Robert Willmott in a critique of Hood-Williams’ article Goodbye to Sex and Gender. In his account he claims that: sociology is ‘impossible’ and feminism ‘impotent’ without the sex/gender distinction; that sex belongs to an order of real world objects that is ontologically distinctly from, and irreducible to, gender and that to oppose this view is to favour conflation; that men are ontologically distinct from women. In this reply he argue that it is absurd to say that sociology, which pre-dates the sex/gender distinction by two hundred years, or feminism (also historically prior), cannot function without it; that the distinction between the real and the ideational rests on an ontology that is itself discursive and that the critique of the general distinction made between sex and gender does not necessitate conflating the objects of biological and sociological discourses; that men and women are no more ontologically distinct than people with black skins are from those with white.
A gay and lesbian information centre and archive, with branches in Amsterdam (Homodok) and Leeuwarden (Anna Blaman Huis).IHLIA has its own catalogueing and indexing system. Its bibliographic database currently lists almost 80.000 records indexed with the help of the Homosaurus, an especially designed, controlled vocabulary of about 3000 gay and lesbian index terms (keywords). Using the Homosaurus, the database provides easy and highly detailed access to both Homodok's own holdings and the holdings of other institutions. Homodok also serves as a repository for the records of gay and lesbian organizations and groups. It stores the records of several Dutch gay and lesbian organizations and activists' groups as well as personal archives of gay men and lesbians.
Wie ist Geschlecht möglich? Zur Beobachtung von ‘Sexualität ’ und ‘Geschlecht’.
A contribution to the sociology of the body. The main question: how is gender possible?
Gender and Society: A matter of Nature or Nurture?
Androgyny becomming global?
Addresses the current global trend of androgyny being embraced by the entertainment and fashion cultures and more recently by the metrosexuals and empowered women.
The National (American) Coalition for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Youth. You are invited to take advantage of the wide range of resources available for youth and educators.
A worldwide online community of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transsexual people, allowing you to discover more about yourself and others around you. A queer lens through which to view and explore the internet, linking you to thousands of gay, lesbian, bi, and trans-sites and people worldwide. You can use NetQueery's directory and powerful search engine to point you toward queer web sites, mailing lists, and more.
A database published by !OutProud!, The National Coalition for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Youth.
Resources on homo- and bisexuality in Amsterdam. Presented by Amsterdam by Bite
An effort to provide a home and space for Queer Theory and Studies information on the Net. Edited by: John Waiblinger (University of Southern California Library, USA).
The QRD is an electronic library with news clippings, political contact information, newsletters, essays, images, and every other kind of information resource of interest to the Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual community. Information is stored for the use of casual network users and serious researchers alike.
A forum for academic discussions pertaining to queer theory, an umbrella term encompassing lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transsexual/transgender studies. It is also intended to promote networking and information sharing between teachers, researchers, librarians, and students — anyone involved or interested in the field of queer studies. Posting announcements about relevant conferences or publications, calls for papers, job opportunities, or anything else relevant to the topic of queer studies is encouraged, though only subscribers may post to the list. It will serve additionally as a repository for syllabi, bibliographies, and other items of interest relating to Queer Studies.
Information for students and professors of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and queer studies and to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and queer-identified people. The database contains a picture gallery, and collections of announcements, calls for papers, bibliographies, syllabi, etc. Database coordinator: Larisa Kofman.
Deceptions of a ‘Gender Equal Society’
Eleanor Leacock’s Depiction of the 17th-Century Montagnais-Naskapi. The late Eleanor Leacock was an anthropologist and feminist who published claims of societies that were supposedly ‘Egalitarian’, in regard both to wealth, and to sex. Her writings display a strong Marxist bent. Leacock’s essay Women In Egalitarian Societies was published as chapter one of Becoming Visible, a textbook used in Women’s History classes (Bridenthal and Koonz, eds). One of her principal examples of a supposedly nonpatriarchal society (i.e., one where leadership does not rest primarily with the male) was the Montagnais-Naskapi Native Americans of the Labrador peninsula of Canada. Now, the Montagnais-Naskapi of today (on whom she had done field work) are clearly patriarchal, so she cites the 17th century accounts of Jesuit missionaries to make a claim that this society was once gender-equal, but was subsequently "completely transformed" by their contact with Western colonial powers.
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Gender, Control, and Interaction
An examination of gender as status and gender and control as identities by analyzing the behavior of married couples whose task is to resolve disagreements in their marriage. They hypothize that husbands will be more likely than wives to use negative behavior in conversation, and that those with a more masculine and more dominant control identity will be more likely to use negative behavior in interactions. These predictions are tested on a representative sample of newly married couples using videotaped conversations.
Articles on the history of the gays and lesbians in Taiwan after 1986; Aids and HIV in Taiwan; Early studies about Chinese homosexuality and more. English and German version. Editor: Jens Damm (Free University Berlin, Germany).
A community based on the gay, lesbian and transgendered lifestyle.
