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Contemporary Sex & Gender "Discuss the implications of the David Reimer story and other evidence on theories of gender Identity" Tutor: Sue Ball Written by Mark Suffolk Gender identity is an inner sense of being male or female and is usually congruent with biological sex. Sex is whether a child is biologically male or female, whilst gender refers to behaviours which are associated to being one sex or the other. What makes us feel female or male? Where does this feeling come from? There are different theories of what gives us our gender Identity. One of these is Social constructionism which considers humans learn our gender identity from the moment we are born. "Gender role learning is the outcome of accumulating learning experiences that the individual has in a particular environment" (Perry & Bussey, 1984) From the moment a family member becomes pregnant we are obsessed with whether the baby will be...

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