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from Part II - Identities and Diversity
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 December 2024
This chapter explores gender diversity across a range of contexts. The term ‘gender diversity’ is used to refer to a diversity of genders (inclusive of cis and trans men and women and non-binary people). To understand gender diversity in more detail, this chapter introduces a range of theories of gender and presents cisgenderism as an ideology that delegitimises people’s own understandings of their bodies and genders. First, the focus is on cisgender lesbians and gay men in relation to gender diversity to highlight the ways in which gender norms underpin many aspects of lesbian and gay lives, including division of household labour, parenting, intimacy (including intimate partner violence), and identifications. Next, gender diversity within Western cultures is explored with reference to the lives of non-binary people and the challenges they face living in a cisgender-centric context. The last section of the chapter focuses on gender in cross-cultural contexts, including those that challenge Western gender binaries and world views.
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