Binary option

The constant oppression that all Indian princesses and squaws face is a major contributor to not only how I view the world, but also my particular influence in the binary. For instance, aboriginal women have no control over their public identity; therefore, limiting their potential and labeling them as sexual objects instead of distinct individuals (Anderson 82). This cruel reality for Native women reflects how our world sees all women – worthless and inferior compared to men. For this reason,…

In modern times, the huge progress of sexual liberation has evoked the reconsideration of gender identity, which leads to the reexamination of gender transgression and its sexual corollary. This essay will argue how the performativity of binary genders implicitly entails the possibility of alternative sexualities under the heterosexual hegemony through the analysis of a Disney animation Mulan (1998), which is a story of a woman successfully disguising as a warrior within an army for a decade.…

work of historians can find equal application in the field of environmental activism. For example, the studying of historical trends in human behaviour and action can, as academic Alfred Crosby exemplifies, reveal the falsity of the nature-culture binary that allows the human degradation of the planet to continue unchecked. Moreover,…

can also be referred to as transsexual if they have had medical alterations to their body to match their gender identity. Even within biological sex, there is a grey area between the typical male and female binary, called “intersex”. Most societies view sex as a binary concept with only two options, but intersex describes those who have both male and female sex organs. For example, a person might be born appearing to be female on the outside, but having mostly male-typical anatomy on the inside.…

sexes can be oppressed. While women are still discretely discriminated, men are as well. Are gender binaries problematic? Yes, definitely! Social order coined gender and its split labels male and female, setting unachievable and unacceptable standards for each. Male equals masculinity. Female equals femininity. Why not the other way around? Why can’t men be emotional and women be buff? Why the binary construction of gender is problematic is because it poses questions like these, not just in the…

As Connell suggests, gender is something recognisable but is often registered on an unconscious level. From the moment we are born we are placed into the binary division of male or female, the defining feature of our subjectivity. This distinction organises and informs our entire lives – from the bathrooms we use to the sports we’re expected to play. These arrangements are often so engrained into our way of interacting with the world that ‘they can seem part of the natural order’ (Connell 2015,…

Gender is a complex spectrum of identity that is much greater than the binary of man or woman. It is the performance of cultural, social, and psychological traits in which people express themselves. These characteristics are gender cues that have been culturally agreed upon to identify the gender or sex of another person. This expression of traits manifests through appearance and behavior and includes hairstyle, clothing, gait, vocal inflection, body shape, and facial hair. Socially, it is…

Throughout Carson McCullers’s work The Member of the Wedding, Frankie Addams is seen to embody or take on characteristics of a male. McCullers gives Frankie male characteristics to show the difference in power dynamic between males and females throughout the text. During the scene with her father in the jewelry shop, Frankie thinks of the times that she pretends to work on watches just like her father, “sometimes a little crowd of sidewalk lazies would collect to watch her from the street and…

Alexandra Duma Professor Helen Kapstein LIT 316 Defying the Gender Binary in Luna Gender identity is the subjective understanding of one’s gender (Morrow 7). The way in which an individual forms a gender identity relies heavily on the socio-cultural environment in which one lives. Gender identity is different than biological sex and sexual orientation. Luna by Julie Anne Peters follows the coming of age story of Luna, a boy who struggles with gender roles and expectations imposed on him by his…

institutions such as the United States Military and the Attorney General’s Office had been on record as viewing “trans” as potentially analogous with cisgender identities, other institutions continue to promote “trans” as a ‘third’ or ‘alternative’ gender option to Male and Female. Perhaps most…