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Diana L. Jenkins; Aubrey L. Hoffer; Dawn DeLay – Grantee Submission, 2024
The current study explored the relation between sexual orientation, masculinity ideology, and sexism among 380 adult heterosexual and bisexual women. Participants completed measures of sexual orientation, masculinity ideology, hostile sexism, and benevolent sexism. Mean-level analyses concluded that heterosexual women scored significantly higher…
Descriptors: Masculinity, Ideology, Gender Bias, Sexual Orientation
Beniscelli-Contreras, Leonora; Gómez-Guinart, Kyuttzza – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2023
How might an erotic pedagogy come to emancipate girls' corpo-subjectivities shaped by compulsive heterosexuality? We sail our 'tercermundistas' girlhoods doing a visual collective biography in round trips between a neoliberal country and an island with communist ambitions. Through unravelling common entangled introjections of compulsive…
Descriptors: Females, Sexual Orientation, Foreign Countries, Decolonization
Bush, Hillary H.; Williams, Lindsey W.; Mendes, Eva – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2021
Existing research suggests that people with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) are more likely than those without ASD to self-identify as asexual, or as being on the asexual spectrum. This study contributes to the literature by exploring aspects of sexuality and well-being in a large, community-based sample of young women (18-30 years old) with ASD (N…
Descriptors: Sexual Orientation, Females, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders
Gabrielle McAllaster – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The cross-racial collaborations of Black women and white individuals in the academy are fraught and complex, as their livelihoods are connected to larger socio-political structures and intersecting systems of oppression, namely race and gender (Crenshaw, 1989, 1990). In this study, I engaged in the research alongside three Black women, two white…
Descriptors: Females, Blacks, Whites, Intersectionality
Shen, Lisa Chu – Children's Literature in Education, 2021
This article reads contemporary Chinese children's author Yin Jianling's novels "The Paper Puppy" ("Zhiren") and "Orange Fish" ("Juzi Yu") alongside her letter collection "Fifteen Letters to Girls" ("Zhi Weilai de Ni") to explore the overarching themes of femininity, difference and female…
Descriptors: Femininity, Sexual Orientation, Adolescent Literature, Foreign Countries
Robbie Roshyl Mitchell – ProQuest LLC, 2023
In modern society, some African American women are choosing a career before accepting the traditional role of birthing a child or children at an early age and marriage is not always part of the equation. Women's freedoms (i.e., equality, personal choice, sexuality) have increased since their early struggles for their rights as citizens and as…
Descriptors: Childlessness, African Americans, Females, Adults
Peterman, Nora; Skrlac Lo, Rachel – Review of Education, Pedagogy & Cultural Studies, 2022
Blockbuster young adult (YA) dystopian novels invite readers to explore questions of identity and agency in fictional societies impacted by familiar concerns, such as increased social and political violence and state surveillance. As young people navigate similar issues in their own lived experiences, these texts can serve as transformative…
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Social Environment, Imagination, Authoritarianism
Heidi L. Wickersham – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This action research project centers the narratives of women and nonbinary students of color as they navigate leadership roles within student government at Ivy League institutions. The overarching aim of the project is to develop an understanding of the barriers to participation for women and nonbinary students of color and collaboratively…
Descriptors: Barriers, Student Participation, Females, Minority Group Students
Dermody, Sarah S.; McGinley, James; Eckstrand, Kristin; Marshal, Michael P. – Journal of LGBT Youth, 2020
Objectives: To estimate individual and group trajectories of substance use among heterosexual and sexual minority adolescent females (SMFs) and evaluate longitudinal substance use disparities. Methods: Annual self-reported substance use data (frequency of cigarette, alcohol, and marijuana use) across ages 13-20 years were used to estimate…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Females, LGBTQ People, Sexual Orientation
Phonkaewkate, Anantasak; Piayura, Orathai – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2023
Issues surrounding gender and sexuality are fundamental determinants of either a liberated or restricted human experience, and comprehensive sex education has been recognized as an essential mechanism to help youth process their gender and sexuality in a standardized, open, safe, and healthy atmosphere. In the absence of such education, Y novels…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Gender Bias, Adolescent Literature, Novels
Eilidh Cage; Catherine J. Crompton; Sarah Dantas; Khiah Strachan; Rachel Birch; Mark Robinson; Stasa Morgan-Appel; Charlie MacKenzie-Nash; Aaron Gallagher; Monique Botha – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2024
Studies investigating autistic community research priorities indicate a mismatch between what autism research focuses on and what autistic people want to see researched. Furthermore, there has not been a research priority-setting exercise specifically with autistic people in Scotland, where there are unique cultural, political and social contexts.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Research, Research Needs
Andrew, Lesley; Robinson, Ken; Costello, Leesa; Dare, Julie – Studies in Higher Education, 2022
A longitudinal qualitative study of undergraduate women nursing students demonstrated the profound and pervasive influence of the heterosexual intimate relationship on their university engagement and achievement. Hitherto, the importance of women's private lives have been underappreciated in the arenas of student equity and retention. The study…
Descriptors: Nursing Students, Undergraduate Students, Females, Sex Fairness
Ortega, Guillermo; Taylor, Z. W.; Childs, Joshua – Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, 2022
Prior research has analyzed the purpose and composition of athletic mission statements, but no prior work has moved beyond athletic mission statements and toward athletic diversity mission statements. Specifically, this study sought to understand the prevalence of both athletic mission and diversity mission statements and how National Collegiate…
Descriptors: Diversity, Institutional Mission, Gender Differences, College Athletics
Thorpe, Shemeka; Hargons, Candice N.; Tanner, Amanda E.; Stevens-Watkins, Danelle – American Journal of Sexuality Education, 2022
Black women have disproportionate rates of HIV compared to women of all other racial groups. The purpose of this analysis was to investigate perceived HIV risk, HIV and sexually transmitted infection (STI) testing behaviors, and pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) knowledge and attitudes among Black sexual minority women (SMW) and examine differences…
Descriptors: African Americans, Females, Disproportionate Representation, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS)
Miles, Jeffrey A.; Naumann, Stefanie E. – International Journal of Science Education, 2021
Historically women have been underrepresented in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). Some scholars have suggested that science self-concept perceptions have contributed to this gender gap. We propose and empirically examine a model of the relationships between gender, sexual orientation, science self-efficacy,…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Females, STEM Education, Disproportionate Representation