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Atravesamiento de género

English translation: gender-crossing


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Spanish term or phrase:Atravesamiento de género
English translation:gender-crossing
Entered by: Jesús Cordero-Salvado
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22:56 Mar 17, 2008
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Social Sciences - Social Science, Sociology, Ethics, etc. / Gender relationships
Spanish term or phrase: Atravesamiento de género
Contexto:
Por esto, también es interesante la propuesta del atravesamiento de género.
[siento que no haya más contexto, el texto es sobre relaciones de género, igualdad de género, etc]

Mi pregunta es: dejando aparte el hecho de que atravesamiento no es una palabra del diccionario, ¿es esto lo mismo que "gender mainstreaming".
¿Hay alguna diferencia con transversalización de género?
Se restringe el uso de atravesamiento de género a Argentina, o se usa también en otros países
Jesús Cordero-Salvado
Local time: 06:28
gender-crossing
Explanation:
15,100 references - but you'd have to be sure that's what's meant, because it's very specific. I'll see if I can find a defintion.

Certainly, it seems that both films revealed realistic outcomes for gender crossing in sports, although Girlfight and Billy Elliot seemed to focus only on ...
serendip.brynmawr.edu/local/scisoc/sports02/papers/jchang.html

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Note added at 18 mins (2008-03-17 23:15:29 GMT)
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On further exploration, the term would seem to refer to switching gender roles. Confusion may arise from the rampant misuse of 'gender' to mean 'sex'. In the examples below, it's about gender roles, not about an individual's sex or sexuality.

Skill and Persistence in Gender Crossing and Nonconformity Among Children ... Several scholars have lauded gender crossing as one pathway for tearing down ...
www.haworthpress.com/store/ArticleAbstract.asp?ID=100200

by Henry Abelove, Michèle Aina Barale, David M. Halperin - 1993 - Social Science
The Larger Cultural and Social Context of Gender-crossing Any really ... As explained earlier, he was of the opinion that the gender-crossing custom was ...
books.google.com/books?isbn=0415905192.

Do we only allow gender crossing in certain sports? Girls can play baseball, but boys can't play softball? Girls can wrestle, and boys can play on a girls' ...
letters.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/2006/04/21/tennis/view/?order=asc
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Muriel Vasconcellos
United States
Local time: 22:28
Grading comment
It fitted very well with the previous bits of the translation, Many thanks
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



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3 +3gender-crossing
Muriel Vasconcellos


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gender-crossing


Explanation:
15,100 references - but you'd have to be sure that's what's meant, because it's very specific. I'll see if I can find a defintion.

Certainly, it seems that both films revealed realistic outcomes for gender crossing in sports, although Girlfight and Billy Elliot seemed to focus only on ...
serendip.brynmawr.edu/local/scisoc/sports02/papers/jchang.html

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Note added at 18 mins (2008-03-17 23:15:29 GMT)
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On further exploration, the term would seem to refer to switching gender roles. Confusion may arise from the rampant misuse of 'gender' to mean 'sex'. In the examples below, it's about gender roles, not about an individual's sex or sexuality.

Skill and Persistence in Gender Crossing and Nonconformity Among Children ... Several scholars have lauded gender crossing as one pathway for tearing down ...
www.haworthpress.com/store/ArticleAbstract.asp?ID=100200

by Henry Abelove, Michèle Aina Barale, David M. Halperin - 1993 - Social Science
The Larger Cultural and Social Context of Gender-crossing Any really ... As explained earlier, he was of the opinion that the gender-crossing custom was ...
books.google.com/books?isbn=0415905192.

Do we only allow gender crossing in certain sports? Girls can play baseball, but boys can't play softball? Girls can wrestle, and boys can play on a girls' ...
letters.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/2006/04/21/tennis/view/?order=asc

Muriel Vasconcellos
United States
Local time: 22:28
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Grading comment
It fitted very well with the previous bits of the translation, Many thanks

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Marian Martin
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agree  Deborah Lockett
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agree  xxxalizestarfir
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