Androgyny is a term derived from the Greek words ανήρ (anér, meaning man) and γυνή (gyné, meaning woman)^[1] that can refer to either of two related concepts about gender. Either the mixing of masculine and feminine characteristics, be it fashion statements, or the balance of "anima and animus" in psychoanalytic theory. Androgyny can refer to either a combining of both genders, or a lack of both a person who exhibits androgyny is called an androgyne for plants and flowers see Hermaphroditism in plants and Plant sexuality Androgyny is a song by Garbage Androgynous may refer to: Androgynous, a song by The... Gender symbols: female (left), male (right). ... Manliness redirects here. ... In some cultures, makeup is associated with femininity. ... Not to be confused with Anima Animus. ... Analytical psychology (or Jungian psychology) refers to the school of psychology originating from the ideas of Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung, and then advanced by his students and other thinkers who followed in his tradition. ...

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Androgyne

Androgyne derives from two Greek words, but makes its first appearance as a compound word in Rabbinic Judaism (see, e.g., Genesis Rabba 8.1; Leviticus Rabba 14.1), most probably as an alternative to the Greek Pagan-related usage of hermaphrodite. For other uses, see Hermaphrodite (disambiguation). ...

The Online Etymology Dictionary dates its appearance in English to 1552, although it is sometimes (wrongly) claimed to have been coined by Prof. Sandra Bem, who helped to popularise the concept. Sandra Ruth Lipsitz Bem, born on 22 June, 1944, is a Pennsylvanian psychologist known for many of her works in androgyny and gender studies, including the Bem Sex Role Inventory. ...

An androgyne in terms of gender identity, is a person who does not fit cleanly into the typical masculine and feminine gender roles of their society. They may also use the term ambigender to describe themselves. Many androgynes identify as being mentally "between" male and female, or as entirely genderless. They may class themselves as non-gendered, agendered, between genders, Intergendered, bigendered or, genderfluid^{[citation needed]} Manliness redirects here. ... In some cultures, makeup is associated with femininity. ... A bagpiper in military uniform. ... Look up Intergender in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Bigender (bi+gender) is a tendency to move between masculine and feminine gender-typed behaviour depending on context, expressing a distinctly male persona and a distinctly female persona. ...

Androgyne was once used as a synonym for hermaphrodite, a term since replaced by the word intersex. An intersexual is a person (or individual of any unisexual species) who is born with genitalia and/or secondary sexual characteristics of indeterminate sex, or which combine features of both sexes. ...

Prof. Sandra Bem's work on androgyny preceded the current widespread use of the term as a gender identity, and uses the term more in terms of character traits than core gender identity. She considers an androgyous balance of traits to be desirable, stating that those who are able to draw on both traditionally masculine and feminine emotions and behaviours are best able to cope with life's challenges in a well-rounded way.

Androgynous traits

Androgynous traits are those that either have no gender value, or have some aspects generally attributed to the opposite gender. Physiological androgyny (compare intersex), which deals with physical traits, is distinct from behavioral androgyny which deals with personal and social anomalies in gender, and from psychological androgyny, which is a matter of gender identity.^{[citation needed]} This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... An intersexual is a person (or individual of any unisexual species) who is born with genitalia and/or secondary sexual characteristics of indeterminate sex, or which combine features of both sexes. ... Anomalies is Cephalic Carnages 3rd full-length album released on Relapse Records, and their most current album to date. ... Psychology (ancient Greek: psyche = soul and logos = word) is the study of mind, thought, and behaviour. ... This does not cite any references or sources. ...

To say that a culture or relationship is androgynous is to say that it lacks rigid gender roles and that the people involved display characteristics or partake in activities traditionally associated with the other gender. The term androgynous is often used to refer to a person whose look or build make determining their gender difficult but is generally not used as a synonym for actual intersexuality, transgender or two-spirit people. Occasionally, people who do not actually define themselves as androgynes adapt their physical appearance to look androgynous. This outward androgyny has been used as a fashion statement, and some of the milder forms of it (women wearing men's trousers/men wearing skirts, for example) are not perceived as transgendered behavior. A bagpiper in Scottish military clan-uniform. ... Intersexuality is the state of a person whose sex chromosomes, genitalia and/or secondary sex characteristics are determined to be neither exclusively male nor female. ... A transwoman with XY written on her hand, at a protest in Paris, October 1, 2005. ... Berdache (from French, from Arabic bardajo meaning kept boy) is a generic term used by some for a third gender (woman-living-man) among many, if not most, Native American tribes. ... A transwoman with XY written on her hand, at a protest in Paris, October 1, 2005. ...

Lesbians who don't define themselves as butch or femme may identify with various other labels including androgynous or andro for short. A few other examples include lipstick lesbian, tomboy, and 'tom suay' which is Thai for 'beautiful butch'. Some lesbians reject gender performativity labels altogether and resent their imposition by others. Note that androgynous and butch are often considered equivalent definitions, though less so in the butch/femme scene. This article is about same-sex desire and sexuality among women. ... Femme redirects here. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... For other uses, see Tomboy (disambiguation). ... Gender Performativity is a term created by feminist philosopher Judith Butler in her 1990 book Gender Trouble. ...

A recently-coined word, often used to refer to androgynes, is genderqueer. However, this term can be used to refer to anyone who identifies as transgender, or even someone who identifies as cisgender but whose behavior falls outside the average standard gender norms. An androgyne may be attracted to people of any gender, though many identify as pansexual or asexual. Terms such as bisexual, heterosexual, and homosexual have less meaning for androgynes who do not identify as male or female to begin with. Infrequently the words gynephilia and androphilia are used, which refer to the gender of the person someone is attracted to, and do not imply any particular gender on the part of the person who is feeling the attraction. Genderqueer or intergender is a gender identity of both, neither or some combination of man and/or woman. In relation to the gender binary (the view that there are only two genders), genderqueer people generally identify as more both/and or neither/nor, rather than either/or. ... A transwoman with XY written on her hand, at a protest in Paris, October 1, 2005. ... Cisgender (IPA: ) is an adjective used in the context of gender issues and counselling to refer to a type of gender identity formed by a match between an individuals biological sex and the behavior or role considered appropriate for ones sex. ... The adjective pansexual refers to equal acceptance of all of the major human sexual orientations and identities, including heterosexuality, homosexuality, bisexuality, as well as transgender, transsexual and intersex people. ... This article is about human asexuality; asexual reproduction is a separate topic. ... In human sexuality, bisexuality describes a man or woman having a sexual orientation to persons of either or both sexes (a man or woman who sexually likes both sexes; people who are sexually and/or romantically attracted to both males and females). ... Heterosexuality is a sexual orientation characterized by esthetic attraction, romantic love or sexual desire exclusively for members of the opposite sex or gender, contrasted with homosexuality and distinguished from bisexuality and asexuality. ... Since its coinage, the word homosexuality has acquired multiple meanings. ... Gynephilia (or gynophilia) (From Greek gunē, women, + -philia, love) is the romantic and/or sexual attraction to adult females, and its counterpart androphilia (from Greek andro-, male, + -philia, love) is attraction to adult males. ...

Androgyny in culture

Literature

• The character Desire from the graphic novel series The Sandman has physical characteristics of both sexes, and maintains the gender balance among the character's three brothers and three sisters. Furthermore, Desire is a hermaphrodite, shifting genders often.
• The elven wizard Vaarsuvius of the webcomic The Order of the Stick has never had his/her gender genuinely identified as a running gag.
• The Fool is a character from Robin Hobb's fantasy novels based in The Realm of the Elderlings. In the first and third trilogies The Fool is almost always referred to as a man. In the second, a woman named Amber. When asked his gender, The Fool says it doesn't matter.
• In A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket, one of Count Olaf's accomplices is described as looking "like neither a man nor a woman", being very fat, and having a very plain face. This character is only addressed twice in the series; once as "Orlando" by Sunny Baudelaire and as "Liza".
• In Shakespeare's Macbeth the three Weird Sisters look like women but have beards, in accordance with their role as equivocators.
• Ursula Le Guin's novel The Left Hand of Darkness is set on a planet whose inhabitants are an androgynous humanoid race who have dual genitalia but are asexual for all but a few days a month.
• Aristophanes tells the Greek myth about when there were three sexes: the all male, the all female, and the "androgynous," who was half man, half woman. His account is found in the Symposium (Plato).
• Cal, the main character in Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides, can be seen as an androgyne, possessing both male and female personality traits. He is also considered a hermaphrodite.

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Movies and television

• The movie Orlando follows the young nobleman Orlando, who lives through four centuries in Britain and changes sex on the way, ending up as an androgynous being.
• In the episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation entitled "The Outcast", the crew of Enterprise help an androgynous race.
• In the episode of Star Trek: Enterprise entitled "Fight or Flight", the crew of Enterprise investigate the murder of a crew of an androgynous species.
• Saturday Night Live's popular character Pat, played by Julia Sweeney, was deliberately portrayed with an indeterminate gender.
• In Constantine, the archangel Gabriel was depicted as being sexless (as angels are usually thought as such) although played by Tilda Swinton, wearing a suit in one scene while wearing genderless clothing in his-her next appearance.
• Semiramis-Satan in Mel Gibson's film The Passion of the Christ is presented as genderless. The character was portrayed by a woman, Rosalinda Celentano.
• In the Angel episode "Orpheus", Willow Rosenberg calls the eponymous main character's son Connor androgynous, saying, "You must be Angel's handsome yet androgynous son."
• The movie Dogma directed by Kevin Smith features angels which appeared to be male (they are played by male actors, use the men's restroom, and are frequently mistaken for human men) but are anatomically neuter, and a muse played by Salma Hayek who appears female (and works as a performer in a strip bar) but is also anatomically neuter.
• The character Switch from The Matrix is described as an androgyne in the screenplay, and it is rumored that she was originally a man while still trapped in the Matrix and switched genders after being freed and finding out her true gender.
• The character Edward Wong Hau Pepelu Tivrusky IV from Cowboy Bebop.
• King Xerxes in the movie 300.
• Fernando Moronta from the Dominican TV show, Al Mediodia.
• Katherine Moennig is famous for playing many androgynous chatacters in several TV shows and films. Her most famous roles are for Jake in Young Americans (TV Series) and Shane McCutcheon in The L Word.

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Music

Style

The Visual Kei movement often (but not always) includes an androgynous look in its style. Malice Mizer, an example of visual kei during the 1990s. ...

Holy Wood the 2000 album by Marilyn Manson is divided into chapters ADAM, A being in the shadow, D being the Androgyne, A being of red Earth and M being the fallen. The music video for the song Love Is A Stranger by Eurythmics plays with gender and androgyny Holy Wood (In the Shadow of the Valley of Death) is a Rock & Roll album by Marilyn Manson. ... This was Eurythmics fifth single, and like its predecessors, was initially a commercial flop, although it later became a worldwide hit when re-released following their commercial breakthrough with Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This). ... For the approach to music education, see Eurhythmics. ...

Lucy, from Across the universe tells her brother "Androgyne suits you, Max." when discussing his rebellious haircut with her parents and him.

In the documentary "Metal: A Headbanger's Journey", there was an interview with Rob Jones. He talked about the glam metal scene, and a photo shoot he had with Poison, where he was given women's fashion magazines, such as "Elle", "Vogue" and "Cosmo" and showed him how they wanted to look. When their debut album was release, Rob said "there were guys on the Strip who wanted to fuck the chicks in Poison" Glam metal is a sub-genre of heavy metal music that arose in the late 1970s - early 1980s in the United States. ... A photo shoot is generally used in the fashion industry, whereby a Model poses for a photographer at a studio where multiple photos are taken to find the best ones for the required brief. ... Poison is an American glam metal band that achieved great success and popularity in the late 1980s and 1990s. ... ELLE is a worldwide magazine that focuses on womens fashion, beauty, health, and entertainment. ... For other meanings, see vogue. ... June 1936 issue Cosmopolitan is a magazine for women, sometimes referred to as Cosmo, which has been published for more than a century. ... Look What the Cat Dragged In was the debut album of American glam metal band Poison. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ...

The following musicians are well known for their androgynous look in style:

• Yoshiki Hayashi and his band X Japan
• Marilyn Manson
• Queen
• David Bowie
• Marc Bolan
• Alice Cooper
• Suzi Quatro
• Suede
• Brian Molko of the alternative rock band Placebo
• Davey Havok, lead singer of AFI
• Mana
• Prince
• K.D. Lang
• Bill Kaulitz
• William Beckett
• Klaus Nomi
• Grace Jones

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Songs

• "Androgyny" by Garbage 2001
• "Be My Human Tonight" by Norman Iceberg talk about the concept
• "Androgynous" by The Replacements, and covered by Crash Test Dummies and Joan Jett

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Anime and manga

Androgynous characters are readily apparent in anime and manga, possibly due to the concept of beautifully feminine boys known as bishōnen. Also, transsexual or crossdressing characters are relatively common when compared to Western media. Animé redirects here. ... This article is about the comics created in Japan. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... A transsexual (sometimes transexual) person establishes a permanent identity with the opposite gender to their assigned (usually at birth) sex. ... This articles is about cross-dressing in general, that is the act of wearing the clothing of another gender for any reason. ...

An example of this is in the anime/manga series Saint Seiya is the silver knight Lizard Misty. While Misty is a male character his hairstyle makes him look like he is feminine.
Also, Haku from Naruto is presumed to be a girl, but it is later revealed that he is in fact male. he is shown in one scene wearing a womens style kimono and has a very feminine face. Examples include: Animé redirects here. ... This article is about the comics created in Japan. ... Seiya redirects here. ... Lizard Misty is a character from the anime/manga series Saint Seiya. ... Haku written in jōyō kanji, meaning white) is a fictional character in the anime and manga series Naruto created by Masashi Kishimoto. ... Serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump Shonen Jump BANZAI! Shonen Jump Weekly Comic Original run November 1999 – Ongoing No. ...

• Many characters in the works of Clamp including the angels and Demons in Wish and Ashura from RG Veda

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Video games

• Birdo from Super Mario Bros. 2, Bridget from Guilty Gear XX, and Flea from Chrono Trigger all dress like girls but are said to actually be males.
• Testament from the Guilty Gear series is also thought to be a woman at first by the fans, but has a clearly male, deep voice.
• Raiden of Metal Gear Solid 2 was given an androgynous appearance on purpose so that both male and female players could relate to him and draw themselves deeper into the experience, though the character was later parodied in Metal Gear Solid 3 as Major Ivan Raidenovitch Raikov.
• Similar reasoning was behind the choice to make Nights, the main character in the Sega Saturn game Nights into Dreams, androgynous.
• Seraph from Shin Megami Tensei: Digital Devil Saga is a literal androgyne, created from the fusing of a male and female character
• Doctor N. Gin in Crash Tag Team Racing, in which Crash must retrieve a ballerina outfit for the character so that he can feel "pretty".
• Endrance from the .hack//G.U. series is portrayed as an androgynous male character who seems to care deeply for the series' protagonist; Haseo.
• Ron DeLite from Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Trials and Tribulations
• Sage Harpuia from the Mega Man Zero series is male, but his looks, voice, and name (derived from Harpy, a Greek monster that is half-bird and half-woman) have led some players to mistake him as female.

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See also

• Ageless
• Anime
• Ardhanareshvara, aka Ardhanari and Ardhanarishvara
• Asexuality
• Bisexuality
• Bishōnen
• Effeminate
• Feminine side
• Futanari
• Glam rock
• List of transgender-related topics
• Pangender
• Postgenderism

Ageless is an adjective describing something or someone whose age cannot be defined or is nonexistent. ... Animé redirects here. ... In Hinduism, Ardhanari or Ardhanareshvara, is an aspect of Shiva, representing masculinity and femininity. ... This article is about the sexual orientation in humans. ... Bisexual redirects here. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... Effeminacy is character trait of a male showing femininity, unmanliness, womanliness, weakness, softness and/or a delicacy, which contradicts traditional masculine, male gender roles. ... The feminine qualities in males. ... Futanari (二成, 二形; ふたなり; a compound word meaning two form in Japanese) can mean both the subjects of a special type of pornographic anime or manga (commonly known in the West as hentai), or the genre itself. ... Glam rock (also known as glitter rock), is a rock music style that developed in the UK in the post-hippie early 1970s which was performed by singers and musicians wearing outrageous clothes, makeup, hairstyles, and platform-soled boots. ... Transgender is a very complex topic, where consensual and precise definitions have not yet been reached. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Pansexuality. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...

References

• Feldman, Stephe. Androgyne Online. Transgender Tapestry Issue 107 (Fall/Winter 2004), pp. 38-39.
• Sell, Ingrid M. Third gender: A Qualitative Study of the Experience of Individuals Who Identify as Being Neither Man nor Woman. Doctoral Dissertation, Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, 2001). UMI No. 3011299.

• Bem, Sandra L. (1974). The measurement of psychological androgyny. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology. 42, 155-62
• Dynes, Wayne Androgyny Encyclopedia of Homosexuality. Dynes, Wayne R. (ed.), Garland Publishing, 1990. pp. 56-68.
• LIlar, Suzanne, Le couple (1963), Paris, Grasset; Translated as Aspects of Love in Western Society in 1965, with a foreword by Jonathan Griffin, New York, McGraw-Hill.

Sandra Ruth Lipsitz Bem, born on 22 June, 1944, is a Pennsylvanian psychologist known for many of her works in androgyny and gender studies, including the Bem Sex Role Inventory. ... Suzanne Lilar in the 1980 Suzanne Lilar (born Suzanne Verbist) (b. ...

External links

• A Different Da Vinci Code The missing pieces of Leonardo's puzzle point to plain and simple Hermeticism (altreligion.about.com article).
• Androgyne Discussion group at Tribe.net
• Androgyne Online
• Androgyne Talk at Susan's Place Transgender Forums
• Neutrois people who identify as being non-gendered
• Sandra Bem and androgyny
• Sphere gender as a sphere, where male and female are just two of a number of possible points
• The Two-Spirit Tradition
• What is Gender support forum WhatisGender.net Support forum for transgender and non-binary persons and their friends, allies, therapists and people who have questions

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