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Genderqueer / Nonbinary
Non-binary (nonbinary, NB, enby) serves as an umbrella term to refer to a range of gender diverse identities and expressions that do not fall within the gender binary of 'male' and 'female'. The terms used to describe these gender identities are constantly evolving and reflect personal gender identity, experience and expression.
• have no gender (e.g. gender neutral, non-gendered, genderless, agender, neuter, neutrois);
• incorporate aspects of both man and woman (e.g. mixed gender, sometimes pangender, androgynous);
• are to some extent, but not completely, one gender (e.g. demi man/boy, demi woman/girl);
• are of a specific additional gender (either between man and woman or otherwise additional to those genders, e.g. third gender, other gender, sometimes pangender);
• move between genders (e.g. bigender, gender fluid, sometimes pangender);
• move between multiple genders (e.g. trigender, sometimes pangender);
• disrupt the gender binary of women and men (e.g. genderqueer, genderfuck).
Source: The Palgrave handbook of the psychology of sexuality and gender
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The following are keyword search results from the library catalogue and 300+ databases. Results include academic journal articles, ebooks, books, magazine/news articles, reviews, etc. Consider some of these as a base onto which you can add more specific search terms, such as “gender ident*” and adolescen*.
- gender* and express*
- "gender* identit*"
- "gender nonconform*" or "gender non-conform*"
- genderqueer
- "gender fluid*'
- "non binary" or "gender non conform*" or genderqueer* or "gender* queer*" or "gender fluid*" or agender* or bigender*
- gender divers*
See "The terminology of identities between, outside and beyond the gender binary – A systematic review" for a comprehensive review of terminology used in scholarly literature.
These keywords, and any others you are interested in for your research, can also be searched in specific journals and databases.
