A relationship between personal history and identity definitely exists. Piece within oneself derives from satisfaction with one's own personal history and identity. ... This caused an external conflict, an identity conflict. ... The risk of tarnishing her identity made her feel distressed. ... In life, women work hard to build a personal history and a clean identity. ...
Teena Brandon was a young woman who used to bind her breast, cut her hair short, stuff a sock into her pants, passed as a man, renamed herself as Brandon Teena, and was later raped and murdered by her friends when her identity was discovered. ... Gender identity starts with the recognition and awareness that one belongs to one of the sexes. ... As the person develops, their gender identity can either become more defined or sometimes it can become more complicated and even less defined than in their childhood years. One may sense his own identity as not only a female, but as a feminine female, ...
This decision leads to the daughter facing the vast, discriminating world on her own and permanent scars for the young woman to deal with for the rest of her life, killing her confidence in her personal identity as well as her ability to function normally as she did before. ... In the same sense, "Red" without question attacks the wolf with her knife while further in the reading discovers that the identity of the wolf is actually her grandmother. ...
To try to deconstruct the character of Lara Croft and to process this analysis using gender critique is quite a feat. The complexity of this virtual character does not even conform to conventional modes in which the "Real Woman" per se is based. Upon examining the different images of Lara Croft, i...
These theories recognize two points: (1) the andocentric bias of Freud's theories in which the penis forms the core of gender identity and personality and females are devalued such that their unique biological capacities are trivialized; and (2) that gender development exists within a cultural context and cannot be separated from it. ... Sandra Bem proposes a "gender schema theory," which attempts to incorporate cognitive, childrearing, and cultural factors in explaining the development of gender identity and roles. ...
Gender Issues & Differences The two sexes by Eleanor Maccoby. The distinguished psychologist explores how individuals express their lives. A book about sex in the broadest sense. The two sexes seek to tell us how our development from in fancy through adolescence and into adulthood is affected b...
From dog-fighting in Mexico to issues of transsexuality in Cuba, contemporary Latin American cinema covers a diverse array of topics. Lauren Mulvey, British feminist film theorist, uses pyschoanaylitics to offer a feminist critique of all classical narrative cinema. She establishes that narrative cinema is viewed from the male gaze and women are coded for their "to-be-looked-at-ness". She offers that female characters add nothing or very little to actual elements of plot and character but rather are subjected to male scopophilia, the fetishistic and voyeuristic, due to phallocentrici...
The differences between males and females will always be controversial. Aries (1996) highlights the public recognition of various works in the era such as Gray's, "Men are from Mars, and Women are from Venus." Many argue that behavioral differences between men and women are mostly due to differences...
It has come to a point where "the exploitation of black women has become almost required for an artist to develop an identity, to develop a sense of status, to be a powerful, desireable, successful black male image of hip-hop...as part of [their] performance," explains Tricia Rose, professor of Africana Studies at Brown University. ...
