Simone de Beauvoir was born in Paris on 9 January 1908. Her parents were Georges Bertrand de Beauvoir, a legal secretary who once aspired to be an actor, and Fran?oise Beauvoir (née Brasseur), a wea ...
Fausto-Sterling received her Bachelor of Arts degree in zoology from University of Wisconsin in 1965 and her Ph.D. in developmental genetics from Brown University in 1970. She has taught at Brown sinc ...
The Personal Attributes Questionnaire (PAQ) is a personality test measuring two scales "instrumentality" and "expressivity", commonly taken to be masculinity and femininity, respectively. It is one of ...
The object of the college is to give the students a liberal Christian education, and to train them in the service of God. The college maintains a low faculty-student ratio. A major innovation is the c ...
Roughgarden was born in Paterson, New Jersey, USA. She received a Bachelor of Science in biology and a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy from University of Rochester in 1968 and later a Ph.D. in biology ...
The Portuguese were the first to refer to Sulawesi as 'Celebes'. The name 'Sulawesi' possibly comes from the words sula ('island') and besi ('iron') and may refer to the historical export of iron from ...
The homeland of the Buginese is the area around Lake Tempe and Lake Sidenreng in the Walannae Depression in the southwest peninsula of Sulawesi. It was here that the ancestors of the present-day Bugis ...
In the Ottoman Empire, eunuchs were typically slaves imported from outside their domains. A fair proportion of male slaves were imported as eunuchs.The Ottoman court harem—within the Topkap? Palace ...
Eunuch comes from the Greek word eunoukhos, first attested in a fragment of Hipponax, the 6th century BCE comic poet and prolific inventor of compound words. The acerbic poet describes a certain lover ...
Main articles: Feminist theory and Feminist sociologyDuring the 1970s, there was no consensus about how the terms were to be applied. In the 1974 edition of Masculine/Feminine or Human, the author use ...
Before the late twentieth century, the term berdache was widely used by anthropologists as a generic term to indicate feminine Native men; however, this term has become considered increasingly outdate ...
Niche (/?ni??/ or US /?n?t?/) may refer to:Niche (architecture), an exedra or an apse that has been reduced in sizeNiche (company), an Internet search and review serviceNiche (horse), a British ...
Early lifeBorn Albert Bornstein in Neptune City, New Jersey, into a middle-class Conservative Jewish family of Russian and Dutch descent, Bornstein studied Theater Arts with John Emigh and Jim Barnhil ...
Intersex is a broadly defined term that usually denotes the presence of discordance of the biological aspects of sex: at least some aspect of the genitalia, internal organs, gonadal tissue, or chromos ...
In cultures where the gender binary is prominent and important, transgender people are a major exception to the societal norms. Intersex people, those who cannot be biologically determined as either m ...
