Is It a Boy or a Girl? Constructing a Gendered Identity for our Companion Animals

dc.contributor.advisor	Young, Robert
dc.contributor.advisor	Bergstrand, Kelly
dc.creator	Wellman, Jennifer Ann
dc.date.accessioned	2022-01-25T18:21:58Z
dc.date.available	2022-01-25T18:21:58Z
dc.date.created	2021-12
dc.date.issued	2021-12-17
dc.date.submitted	December 2021
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10106/30205
dc.description.abstract	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.
dc.format.mimetype	application/pdf
dc.language.iso	en_US
dc.subject	Gender
dc.subject	Companion animal
dc.subject	Qualitative research
dc.title	Is It a Boy or a Girl? Constructing a Gendered Identity for our Companion Animals
dc.type	Thesis
dc.degree.department	Sociology
dc.degree.name	Master of Arts in Sociology
dc.date.updated	2022-01-25T18:21:59Z
thesis.degree.department	Sociology
thesis.degree.grantor	The University of Texas at Arlington
thesis.degree.level	Masters
thesis.degree.name	Master of Arts in Sociology
dc.type.material	text
dc.creator.orcid	0000-0003-4352-7278