Albeit, men are also placed into categories that are seen to employ their natural masculine capabilities, such as occupations in technology, mechanics, building and other "manly" career choices. ... Social, cultural and psychological aspects of being either male or female is the essence of gender itself, and it is human nurturing rather than biological nature that is the key determinant of gender identities. ... It is gender-role socialisation that is more important in creating "masculine" men and "feminine" women than any genetic traits men and women might possess. ...

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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, ...

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Gender means sexual identity, especially in relation to society and culture. ... In French, for example, there are two gender, feminine, and masculine, marked by form of the articles la and le [both: the.] Most French nouns referring to males are masculine (Le garcon [the boys]), and most referring to females are feminine (La fille[the girl]), thus conforming to natural gender. ...

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In the 1950's, sociologist Talcott Parsons concluded that in the middle-class suburban family the masculine personality tends to be goal-oriented interests, needs and functions, presumably in whatever social system both sexes are involved, while the feminine personality tends more to the primacy of expressive interests, needs and functions. ... 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 (...

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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...

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