Personal Reflections on Gender Identities

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INTSRUCTIONS GIVEN: For your paper for Gender & Society, write a reflection on your own gender identity. How do you inhabit your gender and how do you perform it? How is it uniquely yours? How is it shared? How has it changed over the years, or remained the same? Thinking of how you understand your identity at this moment in your life, trace back some of the pathways that got you here in this moment. Who were some of the people in your life (family members, neighbors, teachers, religious leaders, sports coaches, etc.) who possibly modeled a gender identity for you or in some way influenced (good or bad) how you understand your gender now? Outside of your relationships, how does fashion, media, books, music, sports, celebrities, artwork, games, and historic figures help to shape or reflect back upon your gender identity? Is there a book or a singer that seems to connect directly to how you understand your gender? How does the film that you and your group reviewed contrasts or is in sync with how you understand your own gender identity?  Your final reflection paper should be about 1000-1200 words (about 3 pages, double-spaced), and when using references, such as other books, articles, films or other media, these should be properly cited by using a citation style that you are comfortable with, either MLA, Chicago or APA. Information about me that may help with the paper: 1) I identify as a straight female 2)19 y/0 3) Only child 4)Brought up in Japan 5)Asian (half Indian/Japanese) 6) Went to an international school the film we reviewed is called: Miss Representation (document)