Essays on Sex, Gender and Sexuality

Sex, sexuality, and gender have been argued about throughout history. Often the debate of “nature versus nurture” is most popular. However, as time passes, new concepts are produced. Social constructionism is the belief system that sexualities, which change over time, are historically and socially constructed....

The social construction of gender is a theory in feminism and sociology about the operation of gender and gender differences in societies. According to this view, society and culture create gender roles, and these roles are prescribed as ideal or appropriate behavior for a person...

Children gain an understanding of the concept of sex and gender from a very young age, as early as eighteen months. This is a learnt process through cognitive recognition of the permanency of boyness or girlness – referred to as gender concept. These learnt concepts...

Who choose our gender roles? We should ask ourselves first about our gender and who chose it for us to get understand more about our life. Most of us have been thinking of the roles we have now. When people talk about gender role, most...

According to an excerpt from Learning to Be Gendered by Eckert and Ginet, “Being a girl or boy is not a stable state but an ongoing accomplishment, something that is actively done both by the individual and by those  in various communities to which it...

Gender role stereotypes can have a huge effect on people. It can cause unfair treatment of a person’s gender. It can also limit the development of a person’s talents and abilities since stereotyping is all about the judgement of the society. Sexual objectification is a...

Social psychologists have long been engaged with the question how individuals construct and understand their identities. Through theories, they have tried to explain the interdependence of humans in this process of understanding and construction. Freud explains the relationship between the true identity and the performed...

The pressure to perform a normative identity is evident in this story. The display of this identity has been driven proactively in an attempt to avoid the harsh backlash of society’s rejection of non-normative identities, this is what is meant by the pursuit of being...

A music video is a short film that incorporates a melody with symbolism, and is created for limited time or aesthetic purpose. The modern music videos are essentially made and used as an advertising gadget to increase the sales and streaming for music recordings. Media...

“If you spent your life concentrating on what everyone else thought of you, would you forget who you really were?”. At this point in Picoult’s story, Alex must figure out how to discipline her daughter, Josie. Alex and Josie are in a supermarket where a...

In this New age, there is proposition how each gender should conduct oneself, dress, and accord themselves. Kids that are growing up in the area have a person that thinks is superhuman. For young girls, their role models are Disney princesses. Disney princesses make great...

Tennessee Williams’ 1955 play ‘Cat on a Hot Tin Roof’, explores the avant-grade realities in which facades appear to dispel. Through his iconoclasm of the patriarchal normalities of 50s society, William’s embellishes characters as catalysts for taboo reveals of isolation, sexuality, and femininity. Whilst Richard...

Every year in the United States between 70,000 and 80,000 people are arrested under prostitution charges, costing tax paying citizens over $200 million yearly. 204 out of every 100,000-people involved in sex work are murdered. In San Francisco, 82% of prostitutes had been assaulted and...

In the third and final play of The Oresteia trilogy, The Eumenides, Apollo testifies for Orestes and the Furies testify for the late Clytemnestra in a trial that will decide whether or not Orestes is guilty. In this play, a new system of justice centered...

The motive force in Hamlet’s experience lies in his ultimate identification with his father in death and God’s reality, including the implicit, favorable judgment assumed to have been bestowed on Hamlet’s father, in contrast to the present ignoble life of his mother with Claudius: O,...