Sexuality and gender identity-based cultures

The understanding of gender and sexuality is a growing deficient in the United States and around the world. Because of this deficient, many people do not understand the severity of LGBT issues and the growing statistics of violence, discrimination, bullying, and inequality surrounding teens that are within the LGBTQIAP+ community. Outreach personnel that work with youth and have a background in Psychology plus Gender and Sexuality studies striving to create change are very important to the…

place in the world along with gender roles that have been created. This got me very curious about women’s roles in other religions. I decided to look into Native Americans and Ojibwe women. The article “Yes, I’m Brave”, talks about the women in Native American culture that are considered extraordinary and why they are considered extraordinary. It is not who they appear to be but rather what they do and what is on the inside. The Native American view of sexuality and gender is a little…

of the lack of acceptance due to one’s self-identity. People endeavor to search for their true self and discover their status within the society from socialising with a diverse range of people from various cultures, age, race and gender. This builds a sense of belonging for an individual, as they are able to understand where their stance is in the world. However, the society creates stereotypes by linking certain values and characteristics to each gender. This has evolved in the development of…

The American Institute of Bisexuality defines bisexuals as people with the innate capacity to form enduring physical, romantic, and/or emotional attractions to those of the same gender and those of different genders/gender presentations from themselves (AIB, 2015). Among the members of the LGBT community living within the United States, 40% identify as bisexual, making it the largest subgroup in comparison to the 36% who identify as gay, 19% as lesbian, and 5% as transgender. However despite…

The Oxford dictionary defines identity as “The characteristics of determining who or what a person or thing is”. The Hebrew word “Galut”, “initially referred to the setting of colonies of Jews outside Palestine after the Babylonian exile”, when translated into Greek leads us to the etymology of the term “diaspora”, based on “speiro” (to sow) and the preposition “dia (over)” and in Ancient Greece it referred to “colonization” and “migration.” (Shuval, 2003) Thus, diaspora refers to the…

At the time of Tom Boellstorff’s (2007) article ‘Queer Studies in the House of Anthropology,’ little anthropological research had been undertaken in the realm of non-normative sexualities and genders in non-western contexts. Along with this, there was a lack of scholarship on female non-normative sexualities in both western and non-western contexts. Boellstorff (2007:21) argued that this gap in anthropological research was due to a range of factors; particularly the continued barriers women face…

look at many different aspect of life it is the restrictions placed on members of society based on their gender that Thompson and her troupe would really focus on. By bring a new form of sexual identity to their performances in the way of ‘gender blending’ (nally, 2009) Thompson would really push the boundaries on the natural and unnatural aspects of gender roles. ‘Lydia.. Thompson’s sexual and gender identity not only questioned how women were ranked and restricted in society but also…

The theory of gender being biologically determined emphasized, in terms of western culture, that women were mediocre to men since they were associated in terms of domestic undertakings, hence, their primary role is reproduction and child care, while men and the public sphere of social responsibilities were co-related (Weber 1998, p.17). It was asserted that women wherever is associated with nature, to a degree due to their reproductive systems, while men were associated with culture. This…

Gender describes the characteristics and aptitudes that a society or culture delineates as masculine or feminine (Nobelius). Gender affects everything in our lives because it relates our personality to what we do, how we act like and look like every day, in fact it briefly describes how we are in general . Now, Transgender is the state of one's self gender identity( one's self sense of identification between masculine and femenine ) not matching one's assigned sex which is based on physical…

(Berger, 1991). As part of our identity construction the use and consumption of fashion is crucial. It acts as a semiotic marker enabling the construction of multi faceted and gendered identities that allow society, by way of non-verbal communication to classify us all. People are “made to identify themselves with what they consume” (Williamson, 1978, p.13). Consequently fashion and its outlets make up an essential part of what we consume to construct our identities, such cultural consumption…