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Cisgender — Living in the Gender Assigned at Birth

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Hardly a day goes by without a headline about ‘fundamental’ differences between men and women. Self-help books claim that men and women are from different planets, and we are surrounded by often contradictory representations of what it means to be a ‘normal’ man, woman, boy, girl. How can psychology help us make sense of these debates, and understand social norms of masculinity and femininity?

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  1. Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust and West London Mental Health NHS Trust, UK

    Christina Richards (Senior Specialist Psychology Associate and Clinical Research Fellow) (Senior Specialist Psychology Associate and Clinical Research Fellow)

  2. The Open University, UK

    Meg John Barker (Senior Lecturer in Psychology) (Senior Lecturer in Psychology)

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McGeeney, E., Harvey, L. (2015). Cisgender — Living in the Gender Assigned at Birth. In: Richards, C., Barker, M.J. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of the Psychology of Sexuality and Gender. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137345899_10

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