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Article: Gender Identity
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- International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis
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GENDER IDENTITY
The term
gender identity
, meaning a person's relative sense of his or her own masculine or feminine identity, was first used in 1965 by John Money (Money, 1965). The term was introduced into the psychoanalytic literature by Robert Stoller in 1968 (Stoller, 1968).
Money used the term to distinguish the subjective experience of gender from the concept of "gender role" which he used to describe the socially determined attributes of gender.
Stoller (1968) developed the idea further to distinguish between the psychological and biological dimensions of sex. He used
gender
to distinguish ideas and experiences of masculinity and femininity
—
both socially determined ...