Gender Identity and Expression Your Questions Answered

This book answers young readers'' questions about gender - what it is, what it isn''t, and how it impacts our experiences and our interactions with others. Books in the Q&A Health Guides series follow a reader-friendly, question-and-answer format that anticipates readers'' needs and concerns. Prevalent myths and misconceptions are identified and dispelled, and a collection of case studies illustrate key concepts and issues through relatable stories and insightful recommendations. Each book also includes a section on health literacy, equipping teens and young adults with practical tools and strategies for finding, evaluating, and using credible sources of health information both on and off the internet - important skills that contribute to a lifetime of healthy decision-making.Gender is an essential part of all our lives, whether we recognize it as such or not and regardless of how we identify and express that identity. Gender informs how we feel about ourselves, the clothes we wear, how we engage with others, and much more. Not only is gender inextricable from our lived experiences, but it is also a part of our lives about which others often make assumptions regarding how someone should dress and act.>

Product details

• Authors: M Killian Kinney, M Killian Kinney, M. Killian Kinney
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 01.05.2025
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories
• EAN: 9781440878312
• ISBN: 978-1-4408-7831-2
• Pages: 216
• Dimensions (packing): 16 x 23.8 x 2 cm
• Series: Q&A Health Guides
• Subjects: Transgender, Case Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, Coming out, PSYCHOLOGY / Human Sexuality, agender, Gender identity, Passing, Gender studies, gender groups, Gay & Lesbian studies, nonbinary, Gender expression, Relating to LGBTQ+ people, SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBTQ+ Studies / General, LGBTQ+ Studies / topics, Cisgender, Gender studies: transgender & intersex, LGBTQ Studies, Psychology: Gender, Relating to LGBTQIA+ people, gender binary, transitioning, Gender nonconformity, Gender vs. Sexual Orientation, Gender vs. Sexual Orientaiton, Gender vs. Biological Sex