Essays on Gender Identity

In our generation today, there can be some common confusion on gender and sexual orientation. It was once believed that gender was determined by the genitals you were born with, however, in this day of age there is much more behind it. Although we are...

A hierarchy is a system in which people or things are arranged according to their importance. Gender hierarchy is when males or females dominate of one or the other gender. In most societies, especially in the Western sphere, men dominate over women. However, there are...

You’re a girl you can’t go out. You’re a girl you can’t be talking so much. You’re a girl “chilling” is not part of your dictionary. You’re a girl it’s not worth dreaming so big. You’re a girl you don’t have a voice. You’re a...

Throughout the feminist movement in the later 20th century, women have become a renewed topic for art and art history, giving rise to gender analysis. Women are not just defined or categorised by gender alone. They are also categorised by other aspects such as class,...

Gender identity is one of the most important aspects of human life. In most cases, a person’s gender identity coincides with the gender indicated at birth. However, some number of people have problems due to the fact that their internal perception of themselves does not...

Ever wonder if boys and girls get parented differently? Answer to this is a most definite yes, but the problem is you may not realize the horrible effects of parenting based on gender. You may not realize it yet, but you will soon. In this...

Zora Neale Hurston was an American author, anthropologist, and filmmaker. She portrayed racial struggles in the early-20th-century American South and published research on Haitian Vodou. Her interest in the folk culture of the influenced by her studies with noted anthropologist Franz Boas, led to her...

In Eleanor and Park, the two main protagonists are Eleanor and Park. Throughout this novel, Eleanor can be considered to be a mostly static character, while Park evolved through the book, a dynamic character. At the beginning of the book, Eleanor was characterized as stubborn,...

Gender is a term or a tag which is constructed by the society rather than it being biologically determined as per the sex of that person. Males and females are expected to act or behave in certain ways. So males are usually expected to be...

Have you ever wondered if your age or gender can affect your dreams? Majority of people tend to forget what they dreamt about. Other people tend to remember all of their dreams these people are called high recallers. This is because of the more “fascinating”...