Gender Identity
1.
Gender Identity refers to a person’s private
sense of and subjective experience of their own gender. It usually consists of
a person being accepted into a category of either male or female as and the
traits for each category are defined by society. Though some feminist theoriest
argue that these gender categories are impossible to define, thus does not
exists since often a person would possess both traits from either gender.
2.
Gender is often referred to as a social or
learned behavior, not the biological trait. To Lacan, Identity is built up as a
composite of images and effects (mental representations) taken from the outside
world from the start of life, which are developed in relation to the Desire for
recognition and later social requirements for submission to an arbitrary law.
Basically, identity is based on early life experiences which develop to Desire
and submissive by social norms/laws.
3.
The biological gender (sex) doesn’t always match
a person’s gender identity. Usually the gender identity is determined by age 3,
and usually doesn’t change after that.
Other aspects of the identity influence gender identity such as race,
social class, sexuality, etc.
Ideas
1.
Create a gender identity generator. Either by
random or a participant answer a few questions, the program will take common
gender traits to create a gender identity for the participant. They can specify
what part of the world they are in, and It may change depending on cultural
norms.
2.
Create a binary portrait series of men and women
with their face split portraying both gender identities.
3.
Create surreal like portrait paintings
displaying strong opposite gender traits to challenge the viewer on the gender
identity. The portraits can also be done in environment settings, maybe
changing roles of the gender identity.
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