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Androgyne

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Androgyne is the combination of any two genders or gender identities, usually man and woman, or genders related to masculinity and femininity, associated with androgyny.[1][2][3] Different from androgynous, it's used as a gender identity rather than being a gender expression or presentation.[4][5][6][7][8][9][10]

Terminology

The word is a mixture of ἀνδρ- (anér, andr-, andro-, man) and γυνή (gunē, gyné, gyne, woman).[11][12]

Los Angeles music group Poison as example of androgynes

Androgyne Media

  • Louise Brooks exemplified the flapper. Flappers challenged traditional gender roles and had boyish hair cuts and androgynous figures.

  • Coco Chanel wearing a sailor's jersey and trousers. 1928

  • Yves Saint Laurent, the tuxedo suit "Le Smoking", created in 1966

  • Pop stars Boy George (pictured) and Annie Lennox appeared on the front cover of Smash Hits magazine in December 1983 with the headline "Which one is the boy?", followed by the cover of Newsweek in January 1984 to mark a second British Invasion.

  • South Korean pop star G-Dragon is often noted for his androgynous looks.

  • Illustration from 1908 Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary.*Caduceus, n. (myth.) the rod carried by Mercury, the messenger of the gods—a wand surmounted with two wings and entwined by two serpents.

  • Mercury symbol derived from the caduceus

  • Rebis image from the work Theoria Philosophiae Hermeticae (1617)

  • "Rose and Cross" androgyne symbol

References

  1. ↑ » Andrógine (in pt-BR). Retrieved 2020-09-14.
  2. ↑ Ferland, Jean-Pierre. Androgyne (1984)Jaune. OCLC 79678005. Retrieved 2020-09-14.
  3. ↑ Thomas, Sophie Saint. What Does It Really Mean to Be Androgynous? (in en-US). Cosmopolitan (2019-03-22). Retrieved 2020-09-14.
  4. ↑ Androgynity | Definition of Androgynity by Oxford Dictionary on Lexico.com also meaning of Androgynity (in en). Lexico Dictionaries | English. Retrieved 2020-09-14.
  5. ↑ Definition of ANDROGYNE (in en). www.merriam-webster.com. Retrieved 2020-09-14.
  6. ↑ rkanigel. androgyne (in en-US). Diversity Style Guide (2015-11-15). Retrieved 2020-09-14.
  7. ↑ Werther, Ralph. Autobiography of an Androgyne (in en) (2008)Rutgers University Press. ISBN 978-0-8135-4300-0.
  8. ↑ GENDERQUEER AND NON-BINARY IDENTITIES. GENDERQUEER AND NON-BINARY IDENTITIES. Retrieved 2020-09-14.
  9. ↑ Dijkstra, Bram. The Androgyne in Nineteenth-Century Art and Literature. Comparative Literature 26 (1) (1974). p. 62–73. doi:10.2307/1769675.
  10. ↑ Meyerowitz, Joanne. Thinking Sex with an Androgyne (in en). GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 17 (1) (2011-01-12). p. 97–105. doi:10.1215/10642684-2010-020.
  11. ↑ androgyne | Origin and meaning of androgyne by Online Etymology Dictionary (in en). www.etymonline.com. Retrieved 2020-09-14.
  12. ↑ Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary, andrŏgynē. www.perseus.tufts.edu. Retrieved 2020-09-14.
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