Essays on Gender Identity

Introduction To be capable and efficient as a counselor is very important. More so for a multicultural counsellor one has to be competent. To be competent is to have the necessary ability, skill and knowledge to successfully achieve a task. It is not something that…

Stereotypes and Gender Identity in Popular Female Lyrics You can learn a lot about what a culture or society thinks by listening to the music that they enjoy. Popular music in the United States is full of messages about women, what they want to say,…

Identity is how you see yourself and how others see you; many different aspects of society, such as, family, peers and media, can influence this. Gender is a significant part of an individual’s identity and can be reflected in countless different ways, such as, the…

The development of individualistic identity is perhaps the way that we best define ourselves as human, and the first steps in this process begin with gender. Gender identity, or an “image of oneself as relatively masculine or feminine in characteristics” (Berk, 2014, p. 215), has…

“Woman too has a body; it needs exercise. She has a brain; it needs knowledge. She has a heart; it needs experience” (Musings) I would like to look at The Open Plain (Maidanam) as a novel of diaspora, and to forge a more viable gender…