Gender Studies: Gender Identity and Socialization Process

Mohanalakshmi.M
Page No. : 12-19

ABSTRACT

This paper is an attempt about gender studies. Gender is pertinent to many disciplines, such as literary theory, drama studies, film theory, performance theory, contemporary art history, anthropology, sociology, sociolinguistics and psychology. Gender refers to the socially constructed identities of men and women such as norms. Gender is the name given to the attributes and opportunities provided to a person based on sex. Gender roles depend on environment and natural resources. Gender identity as a person’s internal sense of being male, female or neither male nor female and letting the other members of the society to know his or her gender thought behavior and appearance. Man is a “SOCIAL ANIMAL” Education is the single most powerful process for gender in the society.


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