Androgyny and Singapore society : androgynous females, secondary deviance and the development of gender deviance. by Cheong, Daryl Hui Ling.

“…Examining the lives of androgynous females in Singapore has provided insights on Singapore society’s attitude towards these gender deviants, the process that led to the adoption of androgyny and how these deviants negotiate their deviant identity in society’s strict system of gender binarism. …”
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Featuring him...for her : a study of endorsers in the Singaporean female beauty market. by Lee, Pei Shan., Liang, Stella Huiluan., Tan, Xin Pei.

“…Many companies face difficulties in deciding on the most effective endorser for their advertising needs. Employing Androgynous-male endorsers to front female beauty brands is a new phenomenon that several Korean-beauty concept brands have employed in order to break through the clutter. …”
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The ambiguous brotherhood in Ursula K. Le Guin's narratives. by Nur Zafirah Zainal Abidin.

“…Le Guin implores us to look within ourselves, because we are not so different from her androgynous characters too: we also display, unconsciously, some forms of androgyny, and that we should not be so quick to dismiss her androgynous characters so quickly, and we are to look within ourselves to see that there is no exclusive definition of ‘human’ within the universes that she has created.…”
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Phylogeny of the unispicate taxa in Cyperaceae tribe Cariceae I: Generic relationships and evolutionary scenarios by Starr, JR, Harris, S, Simpson, D

“…Phylogenies based on rDNA internal and external transcribed spacer (ITS, ETS1 f) sequences indicate that the tribe consists of four primary clades (((A, B) C) D) that support a fundamental split between dioecious and androgynous unispicate taxa. Dioecious species are related to multispicate species of either Carex subgenera Carex (Clade D) or Vignea (Clade C), whereas the androgynous species of Uncinia, Kobresia, Cymophyllus, and Carex are related to multispicate species of Schoenoxiphium and Kobresia (Clades A and B). …”

A third term : re-articulating gender in Angela Carter’s The Passion of New Eve and Nights at the Circus. by Tan, Lester.

“…Carter conceives gender as a term that is non-essentialist, androgynous, performative, pluralistic and resistant to fixities. …”
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‘Baby, you’re my Kryptonite…’ – a sociological analysis of romantic socialization and power dynamics in heterosexual romantic relationships from ‘her perspective’ by Anandhi Kalaivanan

“…My results indicate that Singaporean Indian women take on an androgynous perspective when it comes to love and are equals in their relationships, in contrast to what media portrays.…”
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Empowerment or Reinforcement of Gender Regime: Rethinking Social Enterprises’ Intentions and Impact through Gender Lens by Tymosiewicz, Natalia Elizabeth

“…The entrepreneurs interviewed are found to embark on social ventures for various reasons, with the increased use of androgynous attributes to describe their motives. Evidence presented also suggests selection of beneficiaries were often made in line with personal motivations, and entrepreneurs are moving beyond quantitative means of impact assessment. …”
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Facial attractiveness in male androgyny : having both male and female physical characteristics by Lim, Grace Zhuo Yah, Lim, Nichole Jie Qi

“…Although previous research has established the attractiveness of sex-typicality, proof that physically androgynous (PA) faces are attractive has also been found. …”
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The left hand of nature and culture by Helmreich, Stefan

“…Ursula Le Guin’s 1969 science fiction novel, The left hand of darkness, imagined a planet populated by androgynous humanoids, entities for whom a sexed identity was a temporary state; individuals would phase through male or female embodiments, with their sex during any given cycle shaped by their shifting social surroundings. …”
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"All The World's A Stage": Takarazuka Revue And Its Theatralisation Of Culture(S) by Grajdian, Maria

“…Especially the last 20 years—since the opening of the Grand Theater in Takarazuka in 1993—marked an unexpected tendency in Takarazuka Revue's public appearance, visible, on one hand, in the increasing lavishness of its performances and the intensified commercialisation of the increasingly androgynous otokoyaku figures, and on the other hand, in the highlighting of individuals, societies and empires as key entities in structuring the dramaturgic flow. …”
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Unconventional exhibitions of desire. by Ng, Hwei Yun.

“…Winterson tries to stir up a potential of change in the reader and her use of fantasy and eroticism creates a comfortable space for androgynous beings to feel safe at the choice of their alternative lifestyles. …”
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Solvent concentration effect on antioxidant activity and total phenolic content of Malaysian herbs by Nurul Atikah, Mohd Nazir

“…The potential of using herbal Pandanus amaryllifolius (PA), Sauropus androgynous (SA) and Persicaria odorata (PO) as a natural antioxidant for food applications were investigated. …”
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晚明男色小说中的性别书写和意义 ：《宜春香质〉为例 = Gender writings and significance in late ming male erotic novels : a case study on Yi Chun Xiang Zhi by 王昀诗 Ong, Cheryl Yun Shi

“…Secondly, this article seeks to explore and the androgynous writings of Yi Chun Xiang Zhi through individual characters display of the androgyny image. …”
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On Zhang Jingsheng’s sexual discourse : women’s liberation and translated discourses on sexual differences in 1920s China by Hee, Wai Siam

“…Zhang Jingsheng highly valued eugenics and “aesthetic sexual intercourse,” and he attempted to use sex education to improve Chinese people’s innate physical weakness and their “androgynous” sexual characteristics. By prescribing an aesthetic education that covered all fundamental aspects of life, he also attempted to remedy what he saw as the inadequate or inverted models of masculinity and femininity available to Chinese men and women. …”
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Women oppression and emancipation through application of amazonian and masculinist theories in selected novels by Nawal El Saadawi and Buchi Emecheta by Abdulrahaman, Abdulwaheed Idris

“…The study further stresses that despite the perennial oppression of women as evidently portrayed in the selected novels, with determined reappraisal, the oppressed androgynous heroines have been able to change their oppressed status and attained emancipation. …”
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