Gender nonconformity refers to the extent to which a person's gender identity, gender role and/or gender expression differs from the cultural norms prescribed for people of a particular sex, within a certain society and era. Most data on gender nonconformity focus on the prevalence of gender dysphoria (which also includes a distress factor) or on the number of legal sex changes. However, not ev...

Today, great interest in the Ancient Goddess cult is still being revived. With the way the Goddess manifests herself as symbolizing an earthly and cosmic source to the universe, some women have found refuge in the symbolical image of the Mother Goddess. The impetus towards the Goddess movement came from an archaeologist, Marija Gimbutas. With the return of the Goddess, the new power of the femi...

In this paper we discuss the difficult issue of how to reliably design and build systems that are fundamentally suited to interoperate with one another. Ideally, all these systems would be constructed using the proposed design principles, but the requirement to interoperate with legacy systems is also recognized. It is not a traditional systems engineering or technology based approach. Rather, ...

"Madonna Ukraine" in Ivan Karabyts’s Pop Song: View through the Prism of National Collective Thinking
 The purpose work is to substantiate characteristic features “Madonna Ukraine” image as a corresponding archetype symbol national collective thinking pop and song works. research methodology based on use cultural analytical methods, identification mental foundations result embodiment artis...

One of the mainstreams in linguistics at end XXth - beginning XXIst century is a linguocultural modeling linguistic consciousness and communicative behaviour, i.e. creation certain archetype. By itself, term "linguocultural archetype" an interdisciplinary concept cultural linguistics, conceptology personology. The authors paper consider archetype, on one hand, as set indicators, which make it p...

in the classification and structural analysis of shahnameh, the authors of the article consider the conflict between good and evil (from now on c.g.e.) as the main motif of this great epic. this motif has spread all over the epic. the number of the stories being influenced by the myth of c.g.e. is at least twice as many as every other motif in the epic. considering the antiquity of the myth and...