How is gender identity influenced by social structures?
Date Submitted: 11/15/2003 03:36:07
Category: / Social Sciences / Sociology
Length: 3 pages (885 words)
Category: / Social Sciences / Sociology
Length: 3 pages (885 words)
Are we ever free to construct our own gender identity? To simplify the issue it would be easier to say that the world we live in is a structure that constrains and shapes our gender identity, the formation of which is kept in line with social boundaries that guide us in specific directions throughout our lives, using gender appropriation as the tool. However, if we are to inspect the issue from a more dispassionate point …
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