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  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,789 Views
11 Pages

It is hypothesized that levels of femininity and masculinity may be relevant to specific types of engagement in action. For this reason, the aim of this study was to search for relationships between psychological dimensions of femininity and masculin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,937 Views
14 Pages

An under-researched aspect of transgender sex workers in China pertains to their desires and expressions of femininity. Male-to-Female (MTF) transgender sex workers are a high-risk population prone to depression and stress regarding body image, intim...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
14,008 Views
21 Pages

10 April 2014

In this paper I argue that the practice of veganism is, or can be, a Foucauldian ethical practice of freedom. I begin by sketching out the problematization of alimentary practices within a normalizing patriarchal framework, which some feminists argue...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,864 Views
14 Pages

14 April 2025

My essay aims at considering the mythological figure of Melusina and her literary development, starting from the Middle Ages up to the Romantic period. The main purpose is to determine how this fictional entity, originally regarded as the symbol of n...

  • Article
  • Open Access
861 Views
12 Pages

24 September 2025

This article offers a new perspective on Miriam’s red jewel in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Marble Faun (1860), interpreting it as a symbol of Jewish femininity, diasporic memory, and aesthetic resistance. Although the jewel has received lit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
8,373 Views
22 Pages

21 July 2021

This article is a feminist ethnographic exploration of how ‘indigenous’ notions of a ‘sacred feminine’ shape Sufi praxis on the island of Lombok in the eastern part of Indonesia in Southeast Asia. I demonstrate through long-term immersive anthropolog...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4,144 Views
15 Pages

17 November 2023

Contemporary Lithuania remains the only European country in which official feminine surnames indicate their bearers’ marital status, and this has been the object of fierce public debates over the past decade. Czechia and Slovakia grapple with s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
10,266 Views
20 Pages

6 August 2021

This article is an inquiry into the nature of the female mystic and the divine feminine in Sufi experience. It considers this experience in the general sense with regard to the Sufi tradition, but in its analysis, the article primarily draws on examp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
10,124 Views
13 Pages

A feminist genealogy approach to governmentality is used to explore how indigenous knowledge and aspirations related to the environment become embedded into Aotearoa New Zealand environmental policy and practice. Particular consideration is given to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
5,894 Views
12 Pages

25 August 2017

This exploratory study investigated women’s perceptions of femininity among Mazandarani, Azeri and Kurdish female university students in Iran. The study was conducted using interviews with sixteen female university students. Analysis of interviews re...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,694 Views
12 Pages

Social research into English Language Teaching (ELT) has a long history. Within it, gender studies have gained ground in recent decades, with special focus on materials and resources. However, a proper integration of the category of femininity has no...

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  • Open Access
4,146 Views
13 Pages

6 September 2021

This article is about the most important Turkish Sufi poet and, more specifically, about the presence and the pragmatics of ‘the Feminine’ in his experience—inasmuch as the latter is reflected in his work. To be sure, this is a case study, in the sen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,857 Views
23 Pages

Why are men less likely to use electronic coupons than women? Previous studies have explained the gender difference in coupon usage by exploring roles within the household and personality traits of the sexes. However, this research offers a novel exp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
6,588 Views
14 Pages

Understanding the Meaning of Conformity to Feminine Norms in Lifestyle Habits and Health: A Cluster Analysis

  • Sara Esteban-Gonzalo,
  • Petula Sik Ying Ho,
  • Marta Evelia Aparicio-García and
  • Laura Esteban-Gonzalo

Background: Gender roles impact different spheres of life and lead women to behavioral patterns and lifestyle habits associated with femininity, generating important differences between men and women in health. The present study analyzed relationship...

  • Article
  • Open Access
58 Citations
16,718 Views
17 Pages

1 January 2018

This paper draws on the results of ethnographic research on ‘women’s circles’; women-only spaces that celebrate sisterhood and the ‘feminine’, including the increasingly globally popular ‘Red Tent’. Women’s circles are non-institutionalized, often mo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,474 Views
19 Pages

2 August 2023

This article compares two biblical accounts: the description of the construction of the Tabernacle (Ex. 25–40), and its connection to the myth of Eve’s creation (Gen. 2). I aim to reveal the literary and symbolic links between “femi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
15,105 Views
18 Pages

9 August 2019

16 June 2018. London Stadium. Beyoncé and Jay–Z revealed the premiere of the music video Apeshit. Filmed inside the Louvre Museum in Paris, Beyoncé’s sexual desirability powerfully dialogues with Western canons of high art t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,577 Views
11 Pages

An fNIRS Investigation of Masculinity, Femininity, and Sex on Nonparents’ Empathic Response to Infant Cries

  • Xinyao Ng,
  • Li Ying Ng,
  • Giulio Gabrieli,
  • Atiqah Azhari,
  • Michelle Jin Yee Neoh and
  • Gianluca Esposito

According to societal stereotypes, the female sex and people who are more feminine have been considered to be more empathic than males and people who are more masculine. Therefore, females and feminine individuals are expected to respond more empathi...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
9,248 Views
24 Pages

27 February 2021

This paper is an investigation of the divine feminine power as depicted in the texts of Hispanic mystics from Sufi, Hebrew, and Christian traditions. This work is intended to investigate the origin and subsequent development of a transcendent reconci...

  • Article
  • Open Access
294 Views
15 Pages

Feminine Gender Norms Among Women with Eating Disorders: Findings from an Exploratory Pilot Study

  • Rosa M. Limiñana-Gras,
  • María Patiño-Ortega,
  • Paloma López-Hernández and
  • Carmen M. Galvez-Sánchez

24 February 2026

Eating disorders are multifactorial mental health conditions that predominantly affect adolescent girls and young women and constitute a major public health concern due to their severe and often chronic impact on physical, psychological, and psychoso...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
7,254 Views
13 Pages

29 March 2019

Gender norms and the co-occurrence of perpetration and victimization behaviors have been examined as key factors of female dating violence in offline contexts. However, these relationships have not been analyzed in digital environments. This is why t...

  • Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
9,255 Views
21 Pages

Feminine Intimate Hygiene: A Review of Healthy and Unhealthy Habits in Women

  • Elizabeta Lohova-Matisa,
  • Dace Rezeberga and
  • Anna Miskova

19 July 2025

Background and Objectives: Intimate hygiene is essential in every woman’s cleaning routine and is strongly associated with women’s health. Unfortunately, there is minimal data available on correct intimate hygiene. Materials and Methods:...

  • Article
  • Open Access
423 Views
14 Pages

21 February 2026

Menstruation, a biological phenomenon experienced by more than half of the global population, remains stigmatized and poorly addressed in the context of research and public discourse. One overlooked issue is that of “period pollution,” th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,518 Views
16 Pages

Gender Diversity and Work–Life Conflict in Changing Times

  • Luo Lu,
  • Shu-Fang Kao,
  • Ting-Ting Chang and
  • Cary L. Cooper

The aim of the study is to contribute to the “well-being, diversity, equity, and inclusion” dialogue of the post-pandemic era. Specifically, we explored the joint effects of biological sex and gender diversity in self-identity on the role...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,346 Views
19 Pages

6 October 2021

Assessment of landscape attractiveness often struggles with the challenge of differences in human tastes. In the present study, the relationship between preferences shaped by the biological and cultural evolution of mankind and the qualities of lands...

  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
12,622 Views
12 Pages

Traditional Masculinity and Aggression in Adolescence: Its Relationship with Emotional Processes

  • Elisabeth Malonda-Vidal,
  • Paula Samper-García,
  • Anna Llorca-Mestre,
  • Roger Muñoz-Navarro and
  • Vicenta Mestre-Escrivá

Traditional masculinity includes norms that encourage many of the aggressive behaviors whereas traditional femininity emphasizes aggression very little. In addition, the lack of emotional regulation as well as a poor impulse control have been related...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,493 Views
12 Pages

11 August 2022

In his intellectual biography of the Jewish philosopher Martin Buber, A Life of Faith and Dissent written in 2019, Paul Mendes-Flohr offers us an intimate view of Buber’s life and thought without neglecting the story of the women in his life and thei...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
10,363 Views
17 Pages

8 January 2014

While conducting doctoral research in social science on late motherhood, two analytical engagements with the feminine came to my attention as evidence of a patriarchal bias toward the realm of womanhood. Jung’s mythopoetic tension between symbolism a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,138 Views
13 Pages

Zero-Derived Nouns in Greek

  • Artemis Alexiadou and
  • Elena Anagnostopoulou

27 December 2022

In this paper, we investigate zero-derived nouns based on irregular verbs in Greek. This is an under-explored area in Greek morpho-syntax, and in this paper, we will make three main contributions. First, we will discuss the fact that the overwhelming...

  • Article
  • Open Access
740 Views
13 Pages

9 October 2025

Androgyny, characterized by high levels of both masculinity and femininity traits, is linked to adaptive psychological outcomes. However, existing research has typically examined these traits at the latent variable level, obscuring the specific trait...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
19,972 Views
29 Pages

16 September 2014

The media are avid portrayers of gender binarism and the belief in male-female distinctions, which are mainly attributed to perceived differences of a physical nature. In this paper, we investigate representations of female kung-fu practitioners (nu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,918 Views
19 Pages

This paper examines how migration redefines family narratives and dynamics. Through a parallel between the mother and the mother tongue, I unravel the emotional, linguistic, social, and ideological connotations of the mother–daughter relationsh...

  • Article
  • Open Access
199 Citations
33,546 Views
11 Pages

Gender and Psychological Well-Being

  • M. Pilar Matud,
  • Marisela López-Curbelo and
  • Demelza Fortes

Background: Research has consistently reported gender differences in mental health, but studies on differences in psychological well-being between women and men have not yielded conclusive results. The aim of this study was to examine the relevance o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,681 Views
14 Pages

Using Video Vignettes to Understand Perceptions of Leaders

  • Derek Moskowitz,
  • Diana R. Sanchez and
  • Brian Trinh

Video vignettes are one form of virtualized vignettes that may build upon traditional text vignettes and enable research participants to see and experience a unique scenario that is better translated visually than through a written text. This study e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
14,918 Views
21 Pages

A 28 Day Clinical Assessment of a Lactic Acid-containing Antimicrobial Intimate Gel Wash Formulation on Skin Tolerance and Impact on the Vulvar Microbiome

  • Elizabeth Bruning,
  • Ying Chen,
  • Karen A. McCue,
  • Joseph R. Rubino,
  • Jeremy E. Wilkinson and
  • Alan D. G. Brown

While intimate feminine hygiene products are widely used as part of daily cleansing routines, little is known about how these products impact the vulvovaginal area and its microbiome stability. This 4 week clinical study assessed tolerance of a novel...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,894 Views
8 Pages

20 June 2018

Once one of the most popular Catholic pilgrimage sites in England, The Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham, now under the care of the Anglican Church, operates as a site of devotion, but it also operates as a site of memory. In this essay, I will argue...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
8,235 Views
18 Pages

23 July 2024

In this paper, we draw upon a study exploring how COVID-19 and social isolation impacted young people’s (aged 13–18) experiences of online sexual and gendered risks and harms in England during nationwide lockdowns and upon their return to...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
8,662 Views
17 Pages

29 May 2020

This article examines how Edith Stein’s philosophical and theological anthropology is foundational to the “new feminism” that both Paul VI and John Paul II called for in the wake of the Second Vatican Council. In particular, this ar...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,260 Views
10 Pages

ResearchingWITH: Narratives and Crafts in Research in Psychology

  • Marcia Moraes and
  • Laura Cristina de Toledo Quadros

In this paper, we share research narratives based on our practice as researchers. We understand that narrating, researching, and weaving are intertwined processes that lead us into peculiar and unpredictable actions in the research field. Therefore,...

  • Review
  • Open Access
41 Citations
26,514 Views
17 Pages

11 November 2018

Disposable absorbent hygiene products have evolved for superior performance, enhancing the convenience of daily lives. However, the use of disposable hygiene pads has brought safety concerns on chemical exposure, and significant efforts have been mad...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4,791 Views
12 Pages

13 August 2024

We examined the sexual double standard (SDS) toward sexually active gay men and lesbian women and the role that participants’ masculinity and femininity played in their evaluations. We hypothesized that there would be a reverse SDS in which hig...

  • Entry
  • Open Access
17 Citations
13,575 Views
15 Pages

The global pandemic of COVID-19 has impacted every sphere of human life across all nations of the world. Countries adapted and responded to the crisis in different ways with varied outcomes and different degrees of success in mitigation efforts. Stud...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,626 Views
21 Pages

12 July 2024

The aim of this paper is to discuss how young Latinx men living in Australia negotiate, embody, and complicate existing dominant and racialized masculinities. Queer and feminist theories are used to explore how Latinx men negotiate and embody masculi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,975 Views
16 Pages

31 March 2025

The present research revisits the mythological fiction of Shakuntala: The Woman Wronged (2015) through an ecofeminist lens. Author Utkarsh Patel approaches the legendary tale of submissive Shakuntala and recreates it by arming her with the attributes...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,665 Views
23 Pages

Time Use, Health, and Well-Being across the Life Cycle: A Gender Analysis

  • M. Pilar Matud,
  • Juan Manuel Bethencourt,
  • Mᵃ José del Pino,
  • D. Estefanía Hernández-Lorenzo,
  • Demelsa Fortes and
  • Ignacio Ibáñez

Although time use is one of people’s most important resources, there are social forces and inequalities that shape how time is used. The aim of this research is to examine gender differences in time use from adolescence to old age and to analyz...

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