Stephen Dwoskin was a prolific experimental filmmaker from the mid-1960s until his death in 2012. Commonly associated with New York underground film scene and London Filmmakers’ Co-Op, which he co-founded 1966, Jewish-American also childhood survivor of polio disability rights activist. Though an enduring oral legacy feminist criticism Dwoskin’s work remains since 1980s, later 1990s 2000s is ac...

In this paper we present the first experimental step of a larger study investigating the effects of agents’ gender identification on the perceived interaction quality. The purpose was to determine how test subjects judge the ‘gender’ of virtual humans. 48 test subjects rated 7 agents according to their degree of feminity, masculinity and gender ambiguity. The results showed that subjects’ gende...

We concur with Spence that the labels "femininity" and "masculinity" refer to a multidimensional domain and have been used inappropriately for scales that measure more circumscribed gender-related traits such as dominance and nurturance. It is nevertheless possible to investigate more encompassing constructs, such as androgyny and gender identity, through appropriate multivariate methods that i...

Six areas of research in developmental and personafity psychology concerning sex-typed traits, attitudes, and interests are identified as elements o f a common "masculinity-femininity" paradigm needing reexamination. The masculinityfemininity paradigm is defined in relationship to Money and Ehrhardt's model for gender identity differentiation and dimorphism. The six lines o f research in the ma...