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personality which holds a balance of feminine and masculine characteristics.
An androgynous person would be one comfortable with displaying
both characteristics and able to move back and forth between the two.
Some feminists have advocated gender androgyny as a source of
liberation from polarized cultural ideas of masculine and feminine.
Androgynous: having the physical characters of
both sexes; hermaphrodite.
Androgynous could also mean, of ambiguous sex; partly male and
partly female in appearance.
Psychological Androgyny - A Review of the Research
Ellen Piel Cook, University of Cincinnati
The Counseling Psychologist, Vol. 15, No. 3, 471-513 (1987) DOI: 10.1177/0011000087153006
© 1987 Division 17 of Counseling Psychologist Association
Androgyny represents a combination of personality characteristics traditionally associated
with men (masculine) and those associated with women (feminine). This critical review
provides an overview of basic assumptions, measures, research topics, and results of
research in the androgyny literature. In particular, research on developmental
perspectives emphasizes the importance of focusing upon how individuals systematically
maintain and modify their perceptions and experiences as men and women over the life span.
The impact of client and practitioner femininity and masculinity upon the counseling
process remains poorly understood. Researchers and practitioners alike should recognize
the complexity of sex-role-related phenomena, including the importance of situational
factors and the role of individual differences in accounting for sex role behavior and
adjustment. - tcp.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/15/3/471
The Journal of Early Adolescence, Vol. 1, No. 2, 195-209 (1981) DOI:
10.1177/027243168100100209 © 1981 SAGE Publications
Development of a Measure of Androgyny for Young Adolescents
Susan Thomas, Mary Robinson, Florida State University
The construct of psychological androgyny or the co-presence of mas-culine and feminine
traits, has been studied in college students as well as older adults. The ontogeny of
androgyny has received limited empirical attention, in part because of the lack of
available instruments. The present study describes the development and initial validation
of the Adolescent Sex Role Inventory (ASRI) for subjects ages 10-14, and represents a
downward extension of the Bem Sex Role Inventory (BSRI). A principal axis factor analysis
with a varimax rotation was performed for each scale (ASRI and BSRI). Factor structures
were found to be highly similar. In addition, correlations among the scale scores and
various personality characteristics were computed. There were no differences between sets
of relationships for the two scales, providing further evidence of the similarity of the
construct being measured by the two scales. - jea.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/1/2/195
Desirable and undesirable androgyny: a prescription for the twenty-first century
Authors: Woodhill B.M.; Samuels C.
Source: Journal of Gender Studies, Volume 13, Number 1, March 2004, pp. 15-42(28)
Abstract: If femininity and masculinity are understood as consisting of both positive and
negative traits and androgyny is a combination of feminine and masculine traits, then
logically androgynous people could manifest any number and combination of positive and
negative traits. The traditional notion of androgyny is as an identity that consists of a
balance of positive feminine and positive masculine traits. A balance of negative feminine
and negative masculine traits could also constitute a part of androgyny, creating the
possibility of an undesirable or negative androgyny. - ingentaconnect.com
Training Men and Women for Androgynous Behaviors in Organizations
Alice G. Sargent
Group & Organization Management, Vol. 6, No. 3, 302-311 (1981) DOI:
10.1177/105960118100600306 © 1981 SAGE Publications
Organizational problems that arise from traditional sex-role behaviors are discussed.
Androgyny is presented as a concept that can be integrated with behavioral-science
training programs, especially human-resource-management programs. Androgyny is viewed as
an effective mixture of behaviors that traditionally have been termed
"masculine" and "feminine." Examples of traditional behavior are
cited, and ways for male and female employees to acquire androgynous behavior are
suggested. - gom.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/6/3/302
Androgyny - Is it Really the Product of Educated, Middle-Class Western Societies
Shashi Ravinder, University of Wollongong
This article examines the sex role identity of college students in India and in Australia
and empirically tests the validity of the prediction that androgyny is the product of
educated, middle-class, Western societies. Results reveal that sex role transcendence,
rather than androgyny, is the product of Western societies such as Australia. Androgyny,
on the other hand, was found to be more predominant in certain traditional cultures, such
as India, and was particularly predominant among Indian males. These findings have
important implications not only for sex role theory but also for cross-cultural
investigations of sex role identity. - jcc.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/18/2/208 |
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