The Contextual Specificity of Gender: Femininity and Masculinity in College Students' Same- and Other-Gender Peer Contexts.
Social constructivist models of gender suggest that gendered attitudes and behaviors, such as femininity and masculinity, are context-dependent (Deaux and Major 1987). If this is the case, femininity and masculinity may be better conceptualized as variable states rather than as stable traits. In the...
| Publicado en: | Sex Roles Vol. 76; no. 9-10; pp. 604 - 615 |
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