(1) The nurses who enjoyed the field most were of the androgynous or masculine type and had high levels of self-esteem.
(2) Previous research by Bem has indicated that androgynous individuals of both sexes display "masculine" independence when under pressure to conform as well as "feminine" nurturance when interacting with a kitten.
(3) Those androgynous looks helped him play a resilient 1970s transvestite in Breakfast On Pluto, for example.
(4) Androgyny had a significant main effect on spatial ability, the more androgynous subjects being superior.
(5) He favoured tall, thin, androgynous-looking teenagers, many from London.
(6) Androgynous males most frequently identified with a nonstereotypic mother combining masculine and feminine qualities, whereas undifferentiated males more often identified with a stereotypically feminine mother (p less than .01).
(7) Sex-stereotyped women typically gave ratings similar to those given by androgynous women while sex-stereotyped men, when they differed from androgynous men, generally gave less positive ratings.
(8) Sexually androgynous alcoholics (N = 21), those able to affirm about themselves characteristics ordinarily attributed to both males and females, scored significantly lower on MMPI scales D, PD, PT, and SI and and higher on MA than a nonandrogynous group (N = 21) of alcoholics.
(9) The cover features the androgynous, skin-and-bones singer in an angular, narrow, cropped suit.
(10) The homosexual sample was "androgynous", and the heterosexual sample was highly "masculine sex typed," by definition (Bem, 1974).
(11) The relation between sex role self-concept (masculine, feminine, undifferentiated, and androgynous) and both relationship quality and dysfunctional relationship beliefs was examined in 370 monogamous partners who represented four types of couples (married, heterosexual cohabiting, gay, and lesbian).
(12) Lucky enough to catch him playing its songs at New York’s Ritz early in 1981, I was instantly won over by his thrilling talent and androgynous swagger.
(13) Rotary pursuit performance (time on target) and reminiscence data were collected for 113 androgynous and feminine men and women under massed or distributed practice conditions.
(14) On her own, Perkins tended to look game in her alert, coolly androgynous way, yet also a little lost, as if waiting for a prompt that wasn’t coming.
(15) Foxx explains that he changed his name to ensure better slots on the open-mic circuit, reasoning that female performers were usually called up first and that an androgynous tag might prove an advantage.
(16) A national sample of 131 male and 120 female therapists showed that male therapists tend to be sex-typed and female therapists are predominantly androgynous.
(17) In 20 women with marked androgynism or testosterone concentrations being suspected for a tumor blood samples were taken by selective retrograde catheterization of the ovarian and suprarenal veins via vena femoralis.
(18) Big Bang Facebook Twitter Pinterest Big Bang, stablemates of 2NE1 at the hugely successful label YG Entertainment, owe nothing to the accessible charm and androgynous features of your typical boyband.
(19) Elevated basal blood level of this enzyme cannot be regarded as a sufficiently reliable criterion in the differential diagnosis of the adrenal or ovarian origin of androgynism.
(20) However, masculine men did not differ from androgynous men in over-all corrugator response activity.
Hijra
Definition:
(n.) See Hegira.
Example Sentences:
(1) And if you get killed, then … you’ll enter heaven, God willing, and Allah will take care of those you’ve left behind.” Hijra is an Arabic word meaning “emigration”, evoking the prophet Muhammad’s historic escape from Mecca, where assassins were plotting to kill him, to Medina.
(2) Dressed in saris, the hijras gave an air-steward style demonstration of how to wear the belt while directing saucy, suggestive remarks at the drivers watching them.
(3) This paper discusses religious meanings of the hijra role, as well as the ways in which individuals and the community deal with the conflicts engendered by their sexual activity.
(4) Legislative progress on transgender rights has also been made in India and Pakistan, where hijras are also present.
(5) I’m calling on all the Muslims living in the west, America, Europe, and everywhere else, to come, to make hijra with your families to the land of Khilafah,” said a Finnish fighter of Somali descent.
(6) This means that now, for the first time, there are quotas of government jobs and college places for hijras.
(7) Around then I started getting called derogatory names like ‘Hijra’ and ‘Chakka’.” The bullying increased – walking down the street started to become difficult.
(8) My parents were always very supportive.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Hijras have long cultural history in Nepal and neighbouring Pakistan and India.
(9) Ogilvy & Mather created a public service advert last year to encourage drivers to use seatbelts by showing a group of transgender hijras at a red traffic light.
(10) More recently, hijras have been seen as auspicious and are often asked to bless celebrations such as marriages and births.
(11) With their glittering saris, bright makeup and a reputation for bawdy song and dance, hijras, India's transgender minority, are hard to miss.
(12) Chapter two Organisation of the individual and group With the entry of the second year of the uprising of Syria, the Shia militias of various nationalities entered Syria to fight at the side of the Nusayri-Rafidite [Assad] regime which flaunted its crimes with regards to the Sunnis, which led to a global Islamic uprising represented in the hijra [migration] of thousands of Muslim youths to fight in the rank of the Sunnis from the various regions of the land.
(13) Indeed they realise that the Islamic State cannot renew the ummah’s blood without a human member capable of always producing, and there was the alluring of the best of its youth and plundering the land with hijra outside their areas and liquidating many of them.
(14) The colorful rally, with the participants dressed different colors of rainbow, aims to celebrate diversity and friendship and ensure the participation of people with different sexual orientations, including hijras, in Pohela Boishakh festivities and promote tolerance among all sexes.
(15) In Hinduism, the Hijra community (eunuchs) – neither born male nor female, but self-identified as female – are historically believed to have the power to grant wishes and cast spells, and are often present at weddings and births.
(16) Many even took to using a secret code language known as Hijra Farsi for protection.
(17) Shwetambera Parashar from the Humsafar Trust, an Indian NGO that campaigns for LGBT rights, says the exclusion faced by the community has been acute – from doctors refusing to examine or treat hijras, to police harrasment and discrimination keeping them locked out of mainstream employment.
(18) Pakistani hijras, or transgender men, at a function on the outskirts of Rawalpindi, the garrison city that is home to the headquarters of Pakistan's powerful military.
(19) Campaigners point out that more needs to be done to stop transgender people, and hijra communities in particular, from being criminalised – such as overturning the controversial section 377 law that makes homosexual acts a crime.
(20) Abdullah Azzam, co-founder of al-Qaida and the father of the modern jihadist movement, defined hijra as departing from a land of fear to a land of safety, a definition he later amplified to include the act of leaving one’s land and family to take up jihad in the name of establishing an Islamic state.