Living Gender in Diverse Times

从麦莉·塞勒斯在《时代》杂志上发表的“你可以成为你想成为的任何人”的声明，到视频游戏《西姆斯4》中引入性别流动角色，再到Facebook推出多个性别“选项”，过去一年半的媒体报道都支持《金融时报》在2015年年底发表的“一个词：跨性别：性别讨论变成了一个微妙的、流动的、“非二元"的”事件“。虽然人们对年轻人如何摆脱传统的男女二元身份并采用破坏传统性别规范的性别表达方式产生了重大的文化兴趣。学术研究尚未探讨性别的含义对青年人的变化方式，也尚未探讨这对性别作为一个社会类别的更广泛影响。该项目的总体目标是获得21世纪对性别的理解和实践的深入证据驱动知识。英国15-24岁的年轻人。该项目力求超越对个人理解的探索，探讨性别、阶级、种族、年龄、性取向和地理位置等社会结构如何影响获得非传统性别身份和做法的机会和体验。该项目还将探讨青年人如何与家庭、伙伴、同龄群体和友谊网络、休闲和社交媒体空间以及在正规的教育和工作空间内协商其性别认同和做法。最后，该项目将考虑媒体在消费和生产层面对青年人性别认同和表达的影响。该项目将围绕6个主题组织，这些主题共同致力于解决青年人在个人，集体，社会和话语层面的关键生活领域。主题1：了解性别将探讨如何性别多样性是不同的理解在当代社会。主题二：实践性别将探讨如何转变的理解饲料到日常性别的做法和表达方式。主题3：生活在亲密和个人生活中的性别将探讨如何通过家庭和亲属关系，亲密关系，同龄人群体和友谊网络，休闲和社交媒体空间的更广泛的背景下，当代性别的表达进行协商。主题四：性别的社会组织将探讨当代性别表达如何在教育和就业的正式空间进行谈判。主题五：结构性别将探讨性别，阶级，种族，年龄，性和地理位置对性别的理解和实践的影响。主题6：性别的文化中介将探讨围绕性别多样性的流行文化的过程和影响，因为它们是在社会的不同部分生产和消费。一系列的定性方法将在6个主题中使用，以使项目能够访问有关意义，态度和决策过程的丰富数据，以及更广泛的结构和话语影响。其中包括：20个焦点小组、60次一对一访谈、一个互动网站和博客、多媒体日记和视觉方法以及戏剧制作，通过这些方式，该项目将考虑年轻人对性别问题的当代理解和做法。该项目的关键主题-身体、性别认同、性别认同、实践和表达，以及男性和女性观念的转变-是社会科学和人文科学一系列学科的关键。调查结果将传播给跨学科的学术受众，带来新的知识，一个高度热门的主题，性别研究，社会学，文化研究，教育，媒体研究和青年研究领域。该项目将具有广泛的非学术影响力，详见PtI。

From coverage of Miley Cyrus' declaration that 'You Can Just Be Whatever You Want to Be' in 'Time Magazine', the introduction of a gender fluid character into the video game 'Sims 4' and Facebook's launch of multiple gender 'options', the last year and half of media coverage lends support to the 'Financial Times' End of Year (2015) pronouncement 'Year in a word: Trans: Gender discussion becomes a nuanced, fluid , 'non-binary' affair'.While there has been significant cultural interest in the ways in which young people are moving away from the traditional binary identities of male and female and adopting gendered expressions that destabilise conventional gendered norms. Academic research has yet to explore the ways in which the meanings of gender have changed for young people or to address the implications of this on gender as a social category more broadly. The overall aim of this project is to gain in-depth evidence driven knowledge of the understandings and practices of gender in the 21st C. UK amongst young people between the ages of 15-24. The project seeks to go beyond an exploration of individual understandings by addressing the ways in which the social structures of gender, class, race, age, sexuality and geographical location impact on the access to, and the experiences of, non-traditional gender identities and practices. The project will also explore the ways in which young people negotiate their gender identities and practices with families, partners, peer groups and friendship networks, leisure and social media spaces and within the formal spaces of education and work. Finally the project will consider the impact of the media, at the levels of consumption and production, on young people's gendered identities and expressions. The project will be organised around 6 themes, which work together to address the key spheres of young people's lives at individual, collective, social and discursive levels. Theme 1: Understanding Gender will explore how gender diversity is variously understood in contemporary society. Theme 2: Practicing Gender will explore the ways in which shifting understandings feed into everyday gendered practices and expressions.Theme 3: Living Gender in Intimate and Personal Lives will explore how contemporary gendered expressions are negotiated through the wider contexts of families and kinship, intimate relationships, peer groups and friendship networks, leisure and social media spaces. Theme 4: The Social Organisation of Gender will explore how contemporary gendered expressions are negotiated in the formal spaces of education and employment. Theme 5: Structuring Gender will explore the impact of gender, class, race, age, sexuality and geographical location on gendered understandings and practices.Theme 6: Cultural Mediations of Gender will explore the processes and effects of popular culture around gender diversity as they are produced and consumed across different sections of society. A range of qualitative methods will be employed across the 6 themes to enable the project to access rich data on meanings, attitudes and decision making processes, and broader structural and discursive influences. These include: 20 focus groups, 60 one-to-one interviews, an interactive website and blog, multi-media diary and visual methods, and theatre production through which the project will consider young people's contemporary understandings and practices of gender. The project's key themes - the body, gender identity, gendered identities, practices and expressions, and shifting notions of masculinity and femininity are key to a range of disciplines across the social sciences and humanities. Findings will be disseminated to interdisciplinary academic audiences; bringing new knowledge on a highly topical subject to the fields of gender studies, sociology, cultural studies, education, media studies, and youth studies. The project will have wide non-academic reach as detailed in PtI.