Gender and sexuality are complex and interrelated aspects of human identity that play a significant role in shaping individual experiences, social interactions, and cultural norms. These issues have been the subject of extensive research, discourse, and advocacy, as societies grapple with understanding and addressing the...
In the course of this semester I have learned my understandings of sexual gender through classes and discussions presented amongst the class. The cultural aspect of sex and gender allowed me to make connections to my previous beliefs about gender and human sexuality. To share...
Radical and queer feminism are powerful movements that have emerged to challenge and dismantle the traditional norms and structures that perpetuate gender and sexuality issues. These two feminist perspectives offer distinct approaches to understanding and addressing the complexities surrounding gender identity, sexual orientation, and the...
Over the years, humans have been adaptive and accepting to the minorities and changes in our society. Nevertheless, it is hard to say that they have been successful in adapting the changes since problems like racism, sexism and especially homophobia are still on the rise...
When thinking about sex and gender, there is often thought to be a binary. Male versus female and man versus woman, these statuses are thought to be solid and unchanging. People are assumed to be either men or women, a gender assignment based upon a...
What really entices the consumer into the advertisement is it the product, how the provocative lady has her breast exposed or how the muscular man is showing off his built body wearing some pants that are barely covering his penis? These advertisements portray a wrong...
World War II is remembered by Americans and American culture in very specific ways. Films such as “Saving Private Ryan” and television shows like “Band of Brothers” indicate that the United States played a central role in defeating Nazi Germany. In these narratives, American soldiers...
As most people might expect that when it comes to discussing intimate sexuality, the views between the Chinese society and the Western society are very distinct. The Westerners’ view upon sex and intimacy are always considered as much more open-minded than the Chinese people. However,...
The article, Femininity, was written by Sigmund Freud and was published in 1933. In this article, Freud mentions his ideas about women’s sexual based problems, women wish to have a penis and them feeling deficient to not having a penis, the relation of those problems...
Freud’s perspective on sexuality unlike other approaches focuses on the sexual orientation of the child. He distinguished a child sucking a mother’s breast as the first form of infantile eroctical. The Oedipus complex contributes immensely to Freud’s argument about sexuality. It suggests that the child...
The entertainment of a Harlem cabaret hypnotizes Helga Crane, the protagonist of Nella Larsen’s Quicksand. She loses herself in the “sudden streaming rhythm” and delights in the sexually suggestive moves of the dancers. Helga is “blown out, ripped out, beaten out by the joyous, wild,...
“Gender is the structure of social relations that centers on the reproductive arena, and the set of practices that bring reproductive distinctions between bodies into social processes.” (Connell, Chapter 1, 2009). Unfortunately, gender involves also hierarchy, where we examine inequality in terms of power, wealth...
The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says, “It’s a girl,” says Shirley Chisholm. From their birth, women are not seen equal to man and even if societies are developing day after day, the issue of gender equality is still...
Since this was the first class about gender and sexuality, almost everything I learned was new to me. Something that I thought was very exciting during this class was that for all the topics we discussed I could compare them to how they are similar...
In this course I have understand the sex and gender reading of discussion presented in class. Moreover, the cross-cultural element of sex and gender allowed me to make connections to my preceding beliefs about gender and human sexuality. For purpose of this essay I would...
