Prenatal stress influences neural and behavioral sexual differentiation in rodents. Male offspring of stressed pregnancies show reduced masculine-typical characteristics and increased feminine-typical characteristics, whereas female offspring show the opposite pattern, reduced feminine-typical and increased masculine-typical characteristics. These outcomes resemble those seen following manipula...

Many articles focus on the feminine ‘Fellinian’ models and stereotypes, his sexist imaginary and, in wider terms, relationship between Fellini women general, but very few analyses have actually investigated real effects that these feminist critics had shaping Federico Fellini’s public image. Starting from debate surrounds films La città delle donne ( City of Women ) (1980), Amarcord (1973) Il C...

An emerging feminist paradigm likens depression to silencing, as women disconnect from important aspects of their realities in an attempt to meet cultural standards of feminine goodness. While offering a provocative re-evaluation of hegemonic feminine norms and depressive episodes, little in this literature explores connections between silencing and depression within other, non-white constructi...

Sex-typed behavior was assessed at age 3 using the Pre-School Activities Inventory, and at age 13 using the Multidimensional Gender Identity Scale, in 54 masculine boys, 57 masculine girls, 75 feminine boys, 65 feminine girls, 61 control boys, and 65 control girls. At age 13, girls who had been masculine at age 3 felt less similar to other girls, were less content being a girl, and had greater ...

Five experiments were conducted to investigate the interference between grammatical gender and false memory in German. In Experiment 1 (N=42), the feminine grammatical gender category served as the grammatical gender of the targets and lures, while the masculine occurred only in the lure words. The occurrence of feminine gender in both the targets and lures resulted in lower proportions of corr...

This paper describes a selection approach for evolutionary algorithms – called feminine selection – that is inspired in the fact that in some animal species the female actively select their reproduction partners. In these species, the males exhibit their attributes, sometimes fighting with other males, and the female choose the one she considers the best. To implement this approach, the algorit...