Gender Identity In 'Night To His Day'

Have you ever tried to solve a puzzle that makes you fight for your whole life? Most of the people might answer they have not had any problems with their original puzzle, which is sex. However, there are groups of challengers struggle at their self-image of gender which becomes a particular puzzle of a person’s masculine or feminine characteristics that learn from social practices and environmental influences, not only from biological sex. I have learned that gender identity is built upon a combination of dichotomized gender system in this society and social expectations from surrounding environment. Individuals fight to seek their desired gender despite all the flood of social oppressions that expect predetermined femininity and masculinity based on their biological sex. Therefore, gender identity is an independent self-image of …show more content…
Public areas such as elevators, transportations, restrooms, and malls, have worked as enforcers of gender stereotypes. The author of the article “Night to His Day,” Judith Lorber, argues that individuals are strictly restricted their initial choice of performing gender by being forced to practice their predetermined gender from exceeded social and cultural factors. Moreover, Ruth Hubbard, who wrote the article “Rethinking Women’s Biology,” demonstrates that individuals’ gender conceptions are built by repeatedly experimented social and political factors. Individuals have their expected behaviors and thoughts based on their biological sex from their born. They are unconditionally led to wear, behave, and perform their sex as social gender. Hubbard claims that those outside environmental factors, such as family, media, and surrounding social groups, have molded individuals to “become” a woman or a man. Individuals’ surrounding social, cultural, and political boundaries force them to erase the possibilities of developing their inner sex, which is gender