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Levitt, H. M. (2019). A psychosocial geneology of LGBTQ+ gender: An empirically based theory of gender and gender identity cultures. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 43(3), 275-297.
In this study of gender that includes an understanding of sexuality, gender identity, and the expression of gender, the author traces the evolution of the current gender identity spectrum. Her findings support the theory that gender is a complex mixture of psychological and physiological qualities, cultural norms, interpersonal interactions, and sexual attraction.

Eagly, A.H., & Wood, W. (2017). Janet Taylor Spence: Innovator in the study of gender. Sex Roles, 77, 725-733.
The authors discuss the work of Janet Taylor Spence, a personality psychologist. The authors show how Spence’s changing understanding of her research and gender identity, in general, provided important social psychological, and personality, and individual differences contexts out of which other critical theories about self-categorization of gender identity emerged.

Starr, C.R., & Zurbriggen, E.L. (2017). Sandra Bem’s gender schema theory after 34 years: A review of its reach and impact. Sex Roles, 76, 566-578.
The authors review the influence of social psychologist Sandra Bem’s development of gender schema theory (GST) in the early 1980s.

Hyde, J.S., Bigler, R.S., Joel, D., Tate, C.C., & van Anders, S.M. (2019). The future of sex and gender in psychology: Five challenges to the gender binary. American Psychologist, 74(2), 171-193.
The authors review recent evidence from a variety of disciplines that find that no consistently differentiated picture has emerged from neuroscience, behavioral neuroendocrinology, social and experimental psychology on binary, non-binary or transgender individuals, nor from developmental research. Instead, the array of attributes and characteristics have been found to exist in a gender mosaic that is both innate and environmentally influenced.