Knowra Androgyny Androgyny Androgyny is the combination or blurring of characteristics culturally associated with men and women. It can describe appearance, behavior, identity, or artistic representation.
Gender expression : The outward communication of gender through appearance, behavior, voice, and other forms of presentation. Androgyny is one possible way to express gender through presentation.
Androgynous fashion : Clothing and styling that combine or blur conventions associated with men's and women's dress. Fashion is a visible and widely discussed arena for androgynous presentation.
Androgynos : A figure in ancient Greek thought combining male and female bodily characteristics. The Greek word is the historical source of the modern term androgyny.
Masculinity : Socially shaped traits, roles, and practices associated with men and manhood. Androgyny combines or blurs traits that masculine conventions distinguish from feminine ones.
Gender identity : A person's internal sense of their own gender, which may or may not match sex assigned at birth. Androgynous presentation does not by itself establish a person's gender identity.
Drag : A performance art that uses stylized gender presentation, often through costume, makeup, and character. Drag can use androgynous looks, though it also includes strongly gendered personas.
Plato's Symposium : A Platonic dialogue on love that includes Aristophanes' myth of originally double-bodied humans. Its myth gives an influential ancient account of bodies combining male and female traits.
Femininity : Socially shaped traits, roles, and practices associated with women and womanhood. Its conventions supply one side of the traits that androgyny may combine.
Gender binary : A system that classifies gender exclusively as man or woman and treats these categories as opposites. Androgyny complicates the binary's expectation of distinct masculine and feminine traits.
Cross-dressing : Wearing clothing culturally associated with a gender different from the wearer's own. Cross-dressing concerns clothing choices; androgyny concerns the blending of gendered traits.
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