In Sarajevo, a predominantly Muslim city, dozens of streets named after Communist revolutionaries were renamed after Muslim heroes, and political parties stressing Muslim identity gained large constituencies.
It was ultimately taken up by the likes of Money and Harry Benjamin (Meyerowitz 2002, 117 9), and while debate over etiology continued, views allowing for both biology and social environment in determining gender identity gained somewhat greater prominence (Meyerowitz 2002, 119).
Psychosocial challenges relate to developing a sexual and social identity, gaining independence, and more generally coping and living well with HIV (Bakeera-Kitaka, Nabukeera-Barungi, Nöstlinger, Addy, & Colebunders, 2008).
And as far as gender-neutral identities gaining traction, you'd better get used to it, Piers.
We consume to buy identity, gain respect and recognition, and secure status.
Once we officially sanction identity as the prime force in politics, then the people professing to be the truest manifestation of any identity gain credibility.
The aura of collective identity gains credence from Peter Steinfels's book "The Neoconservatives," in which Bell is grouped with Irving Kristol, Nathan Glazer, Daniel Patrick Moynihan and Robert Nisbet, among others, as a member of "the powerful party of intellectuals" who banded together to challenge liberal orthodoxy in the 1970s.
As the world grows more affluent, taste and brand identity gain sway.
According to Peiperl and Baruch ([1997]), in a post corporate career realm, vocational identity gains potency and serves as a source or predictor of workplace identity.
In a country under foreign rule for centuries, where the atrocities of the war are still fresh in the collective memory, national identity gains a new importance.
When examining students' scientific identity gains in light of their year in school, it appears that prior research experience matters in students' identity development.
