Identity and Sexuality Options

[only-tuesdays]

This semester I'm taking a course on Sex and Gender. It's very very interesting, I've already learned so much. I have to write a paper this week on my identity and sexuality. So I was curious about everyone else. Here is the assignment, since she words it a hell of a lot better than I can. :P

Females: What do you believe to be true regarding being a woman? How do you define your femininity and how do you express it? Males: What do you believe to be true regarding being a man? How do you define your masculinity and how do you express it?

What values do you hold based on those beliefs?

Discuss where you think these beliefs and values came from such as family, religion, community, peers, or some combination. Have any of the following also shaped your identity: your ethnicity/race, social class, physical dis/abilities and/or age.

Identity Role- How an individual defines him/herself as a man or woman. An internal sense of self. What a culture determines as "normal: for men and women in a society. We learn from family peers, education and the media regarding sex and gender norms.