Gender Symbol - Symbol, Organism, Renaissance, Astrological symbols

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. A gender symbol is a symbol used to denote the sex of a life form or to characterize an agent by gender. The two standard gender symbols denoting male and female are derived from astrological symbols, denoting the classical planets Mars and Venus, respectively. These symbols have been in use since the Renaissance also denoting elements in alchemy, specifically the metals iron and copper. They were first used to denote the effective gender of plants (i.e. sex of individual in a given crossbreed, since most plants are hermaphroditic) by Carolus Linnaeus in 1751. Numerous variations of gender symbols have been developed in the context of "LGBT" (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) culture since the 1990s. Some of these symbols have been adopted into Unicode beginning with version 4.1 (2005).

Produktdetails

• Mitarbeit: Jerold Angelus (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Alphascript Publishing
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 15.03.2012
• EAN: 9786138122159
• ISBN: 9786138122159
• Seiten: 148
• Thema: Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Soziologie > Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung