Gender and Identity

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The paper begins by making a distinction between the terms "sex" and "gender" by asserting that the term "gender" has to do with the social and cultural characteristics associated with a particular gender, rather than the biological definition associated with the term "sex". Using this distinction, the paper then goes on to examine how gender roles came about and to what extent they influence our identity.

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"Indeed, the question of the way in which gender contributes to the formation of one's identity is one that remains exceptionally difficult to solve from any particular perspective, as indeed, the two are so uniquely intertwined, or so it would seem, that it is exceptionally hard to say how and where the differ without employ a stringent and complex series of definitions surrounding the two words. As we must first realize in consider the sorts of terms that will be employed, gender must not be confused, equated to, conflated with, or be taken as a synonym for sex."

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