The Tag Glossary: G

This element is designed to capture the gender of the subject to whom it is applied in a single word or phrase. The GENDERISSUE tag is available for more substantive discussions of gender and gender identity. Gender is a historically constructed and linguistically complex category that can shift over the course of a person's lifetime, in which case multiple elements can be used. The GENDER tag has multiple attributes: GENDERIDENTITY, CURRENT, ALTERNATIVE, SELFIDENTIFIED [etc], with definitions for the latter attributes the same as for other sub-tags within CULTURALFORMATION.

The element GENERICRANGE is designed to work only within AUTHORSUMMARY statements (which are composed in the WRITING section of profiles. It cannot be used elsewhere). It takes in a sentence or sentences discussing a writer's whole oeuvre and the kind of generic choices she made over her lifetime. It has no allowable sub-elements or attributes.

TGENRE is an element used in the Writing section of entries and in free-standing events. It has a single attribute, GenreName, which captures the name of the genres written by an entry subject or addressed by a free-standing event, according to a project-generated list of genre names. This tag may be used more than once on the same word, since the world contains more genrenames, and mixed genres, than can be listed. This is a mandatory attribute; the element is meaningless without it.

GENREISSUE is an element belonging to WRITING > TEXTUALFEATURE. It talks generally about the genre issues raised by a specific text, or about an unusual mixture of genre forms. It has no mandatory or optional sub-elements or attributes, but it has an ancillary element in TGENRE with attribute GENRENAME, which should occur in every use of TGENREISSUE.

GEOG, a sub-element available within PLACE element in every kind of document, captures names of places which are nation states or larger conceptual geographical entities. It goes around name only, excludes punctuation, and has two attributes, CURRENT and REG. The following is a list of the types of places that GEOG captures:

• Nation states: Italy, China, Canada
• Groups of Nation States: Low Countries, Baltic Countries
• Colonies: French Indo-China, British North America [Note: Current attribute wherever possible gives present-day name, with REG attribute giving name at the time referred to.]
• Conceptual Geographical Groupings: Far East
• Historical Geo-political units: For example, Siam and Ceylon use CURRENT attribute to record these as Thailand and Sri Lanka; Siam and Ceylon are used in Reg attribute to ensure obsolete names are searchable.

GEOGHERITAGE is a subtag within BIOGRAPHY > CULTURALFORMATION. It captures information about powerful early geographical influences, or about the geographical origins of a person's family which often contributes to an understanding of their racial and ethnic background. It offers a way to capture women identified as South-Asian, for example, when no more precise national heritage is indicated. It should enclose the word or words that best describe(s) the relevant place. It has attributes, FOREBEAR, SELF-DEFINED, and REG (which last enables a more standardized description than the prose). See RACEANDETHNICITY for a detailed description of the complexities of this element.