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Purpose
This study aims to explore the relationship between the reported frequency of illegitimate tasks undertaken at work (FREQIT) and gender identity among cisgender individuals and persons with a (?) transgender or gender non-conforming (TGNC) identity.


Design/methodology/approach
This research combines an experimental approach with a field-study. Study 1 contained a vignette experiment where participants reported their likelihood to assign illegitimate tasks (IT) to either a cisgender or a TGNC employee. Study 2 measured perceptions of tasks-illegitimacy (PERTI), FREQIT, perceptions of organisational gender climate (PGC), burnout and intention to quit among a sample of cisgender and TGNC participants.


Findings
In Study 1, individuals in a supervisory position were more likely to assign IT to TGNC than cisgender employees. In Study 2, gender identity influenced burnout, intentions to quit and PGC, serially mediated by PERTI and FREQIT. The results from Study 2 did not support the initial model, which proposed that lower PERTI would lead TGNC employees to report a higher FREQIT, leading to lower occupational well-being scores. Instead, TGNC participants' burnout, intention to quit and PGC scores improved as a consequence of their lower PERTI. However, when comparing cisgender and TGNC individuals, the latter presented higher levels of burnout, intentions to quit and lower PGC scores.


Originality/value
This is the first study measuring the effects of IT on TGNC individuals' occupational well-being. It underscores the importance to reduce cisgender biases and transphobia and to address IT as obstacles to trans equality in the workplace.

Spiritual care has the potential to mitigate against "gaps" left when waiting lists (and times) for NHS gender identity clinics (GICs) spiral, and trans people awaiting medical interventions are at increased risk of suicide and self-harm. Healthcare chaplaincy has an explicit role to play, particularly for the sizeable number of trans people with religious faith or who struggle with finding support from faith communities. Spiritual care should be integrated within direct care provided by healthcare professionals, with additional care from specialist chaplains where desirable. Findings from the Modelling Transgender Spiritual Care project point to a need for additional training and resourcing in gender identity care for spiritual carers; a new prioritization of healthcare chaplaincy for gender identity services, which has implications for budgets and commissioning; and increased accountability for fulfilling the statutory requirement for spiritual care in the NHS.

В статье дан диахронный анализ тенденции формирования андрогинного типа гендерной идентичности в КНР; рассмотрены основные причины, повлиявшие на его формирование у современной китайской молодежи. Основное внимание сосредоточено как на исследовании причин, оказывающих влияние на трансформацию гендерной идентичности, так и на мировых тенденциях формирования феномена андрогинии. Проведенный анализ позволяет утверждать, что андрогинность, как наиболее нейтральный тип гендерной идентичности, формируется под влиянием исторических, социальных, политических и культурных факторов. ; The author presents the diachronic analysis of gender identity androgenous type formation tendency in the PRC, considers the basic reasons, which influenced its formation among the modern Chinese youth, and pays special attention both to researching the reasons, influencing gender identity transformation, and to the world tendencies of androgyny phenomenon formation. The conducted analysis allows stating that androgyny as the most neutral type of gender identity is formed under the influence of historical, social, political, and cultural factors.

'This book offers an original contribution to a number of fields including anthropology, cultural studies, sociology and gender studies. Social norms, beliefs and practices around menstruation remain a significantly underresearched and under-theorised experience and as such this book makes a valuable and timely contribution.' - Kay Inckle, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK Menstruation is a topic which is both everyday and sensitive. From Leviticus to Pliny, to twentieth-century debates around 'menotoxin', to advertising and 'having the painters in', Victoria Newton's book offers a lively and innovative exploration of the social and cultural dimensions of menstruation. Through in-depth interviews with men and women, the book explores the many different ways in which this sensitive topic is spoken about in British culture. Looking specifically at euphemism, jokes, popular knowledge, everyday experience and folklore, the book provides original insights into the different discourses acting on the menstruating body and encourages debate about how these help to shape our everyday attitudes towards menstruation. Victoria Newton is a research associate in the Faculty of Health and Social Care at The Open University, UK. She is an interdisciplinary researcher with interests in sexual and reproductive health, the articulation of sensitive subjects in the everyday, and informal knowledge and belief concerning the body

The Beauty Trade is an analysis of the globalization of beauty products, practices, and ideas, as seen through the lives of youth in Mexico. Far from frivolous, the beauty economy is key to youth's social and economic development. Beauty economies reinforce some relations of power, but also undermine conventional gender norms and encourage diversity.

"This volume collects Sally McConnell-Ginet's most important published articles in the last twenty years, which circle around the following themes: language users are actively engaged in making meanings, both as speakers and listeners; linguistics systems and socio-political institutions constrain, but do not determine, communicative possiblities; language is essential to understanding gender and sexuality and their connection to ethnicity, class, race, and other parts of social identity"--

Eugenia Kim's The Calligrapher's Daughter (2009) is a well-received East Asian novel about a Korean Christian, Najin's encounter with western culture. As an aristocratic woman, she is expected to uphold Korean tradition. However, as Najin realises that she is culturally marginalised by her father and the Korean traditional society mainly due to her gender, she picks up a foreign culture introduced to her, western culture. This move is extremely significant because after Najin driven by cultural marginalisation to embrace western culture, her cultural practices are no longer the same with traditional Korean women. This important turn of the novel has not been explored by scholars extensively. Thus, this study aims to depart from the cultural marginalisation faced by Najin. Furthermore, due to the fact that cultural identity formation is highly influenced by culture, there is a need to look into the changes of Najin's cultural identity as she incorporates western culture into her Korean traditional culture. By investigating the changes of Najin's cultural identity throughout the novel, this study finds that Najin has transformed from a nameless girl without an identity into an independent woman with the help of western education.

Preface and acknowledgements / Alejandro Lugo -- Prologue: rereading and remembering Michelle Rosaldo / Louise Lamphere -- The legacy of Michelle Rosaldo: politics and gender in modern societies / Alejandro Lugo and Bill Maurer -- Land, labor, and gender / Carol MacCormack -- Destabilizing the masculine, refocusing "gender": men and the aura of authority in Michelle Z. Rosaldo's work / Alejandro Lugo -- Sexualities and separate spheres: gender, sexual identity, and work in Dominica and beyond / Bill Maurer -- The domestic/public in Mexico City: notes on theory, social movements, and the essentializations of everyday life / Miguel Diaz Barriga -- Victorian visions / Jane F. Collier -- A (short) cultural history of Mexican machos and hombres / Matthew C. Gutmann -- Myths of the bourgeois woman: rethinking race, class, and gender / Christine E. Gray -- The use and abuse of feminist theory: fear, dust, commensality / Ana Maria Alonso. ; Mode of access: Internet.

This collection of essays on gender linguistics presents various perspectives on practices of linguistic construction of gender identity. The articles describe current methodological and theoretical approaches to analyzing the relationship between language and gender, discuss current issues and sketch out new perspectives on linguistic gender construction in media contexts, in face-to-face interactions and in the interplay of language systems and usage