Essentialism and the cultural psychology of gender in extreme son preference communities in India
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9054247 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ramaswami Mahalingam (0000-0002-7569-6693, University of Michigan), Jana Haritatos (0000-0003-1473-5262, University of California, San Francisco), Benita Jackson (0000-0001-6313-0812, Smith College) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 77 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 598-609 |
| Publication date | 2007-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Orthopsychiatry (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-9432 • E-ISSN: 1939-0025 |
| Publisher | American Psychological Association (APA) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1037/0002-9432.77.4.598 |
| PMID | 18194039 |
| OpenAlex | W2068361800 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 32 |
Using a cultural ecological framework, the authors examined key psychological antecedents of a pressing public health problem in Tamilnadu, India: the persistence of extreme forms of female neglect including female infanticide and feticide. Community-based respondents (N = 798) were recruited from Tamilnadu, a south Indian state, from villages with highly male biased sex ratios. Study 1 examined beliefs about behavioral gender transgressions in the villages that are identified as having extremely male-biased sex ratios. Study 2 examined the same participants several weeks later, investigating beliefs about biological gender essentialism and attitudes toward violence. Although behavioral and biological aspects of gender were essentialized differently, a regression analysis controlling for SES and marital status found that the more men essentialized female identity, the more they endorsed violence against women and the less anxiety they felt. The authors conclude by discussing the cultural psychological implications of this asymmetry in the essentialist beliefs about gender
Anxiety · Developmental psychology · Essentialism · Neglect · Preference · Psychiatry · Sociology · Cultural Differences and Values · Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences · Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior · Gender Studies · Psychology · Social Psychology
The endangered sex
Too many women?
Death Without Weeping
Physical Discipline and Children's Adjustment
Essentialist beliefs about social categories
Group Entitativity and Social Attribution
Manhood in the making
Essentially Speaking
Are essentialist beliefs associated with prejudice
Antecedents and Consequences of System-Justifying Ideologies
Essentialism, Power and Cultural Psychology of Gender
Culture, Brain Transplants and Implicit Theories of Identity
Western Heterosexual Masculinity, Anxiety, and Web Porn
Regarding Gender
Widows in a South India society
Why is cross-sex-role behavior more approved for girls than for boys? A status characteristic approach
Culture, Masculinity, and Psychological Well-being in Punjab, India
Essentialism, Culture, and Power
Essentialism vs. social constructionism in the study of human sexuality
Controlling other people
Notes on Love in a Tamil Family
Bare Branches
Male honor and female fidelity
The role of stereotyping in system-justification and the production of false consciousness
Is Female to Male as Nature is to Culture
Selective Discrimination against Female Children in Rural Punjab, India
British Social Policy and Female Infanticide in India
The Cognition of Ethnicity
Globalization and the Reconstitution of Local Gender Arrangements
| Unique citing works | 4 |
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| Citations per year | 0,24 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2020 (12) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |