Is It a Boy or a Girl? Constructing a Gendered Identity for our Companion Animals
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2021-12-17Author
Wellman, Jennifer Ann
0000-0003-4352-7278
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A qualitative study of the differences in how we gender our cats and our dogs. Fifty women between the ages of 18 and 50 were interviewed, who kept cats, dogs, or both cats and dogs. Differences were found in how naming cats, with cats being given less humanized gendered names. It was found that cats are treated more as an extension of the self while dogs were given more of a gendered identity of their own.