Several gender-flexible fixtures on the performance circuit are returning to New York this year with topical shows.
It's really about the autonomy of being a child, about flexible gender and freedom, the wildness in children that gets hammered down as they grow up".
The direction of long-term social change in Britain is very clear: we are moving inexorably towards a more diverse, highly educated, socially liberal society, with more inclusive and flexible gender roles and social institutions.
As Amato's work documents, managing a world in which many women outearn men requires more flexible gender roles.
Findings also encouraged adaptive, flexible gender identities for clients and for therapists to acknowledge some men's needs to discuss emotions gradually, while also avoiding the assumption that all men are emotionally illiterate.
We've been able to identify and implement new work/life benefits like adoption assistance, fertility assistance, coverage for gender transition surgery, flexible work arrangements and long-term care insurance.
While transgender people have a unique capacity to help us understand gender as more flexible than we often imagine, Westbrook and Schilt's research illustrates the ways that the challenges brought about by transgender individuals are often dealt with in ways that have the effect of shoring up our faith in gender as innate and gender inequality is inevitable.
In response, there has been a proliferation of initiatives to engage men and boys in order to promote more positive versions of masculinity (emphasising flexible gender roles, balanced power in intimate relationships and non-violence) as a pathway to prevent violence against women, reduce HIV risk, as well as to promote men's own health and wellbeing.
What resulted is what Sandberg incoherently celebrates and laments: the myth of the gender-neutral, ideal, flexible "adult worker" overlaying a social system that demands a gendered division of paid and unpaid labor.
It includes one of the first critical studies of the "transgender" texts that followed Sandy Stone, calling for a world in which sex and gender are far more flexible.
