Image DAY 190 SOCIAL & POLITICAL COMMENTARY

Gender

WHAT’S HIS, WHAT’S HERS

Gender is defined both biologically, via the anatomy, or socially, through a complex web of ideas about how a person should think, behave, and interact due to biological function. Attitudes about gender are a combination of many influences—cultural, political, ethnic, familial, social, and religious. Social interaction is based on these often illogical roles—males in a moment of emotional vulnerability, and females in roles of anger, power, or violence are not considered “normal.”

Capturing the essence of gender in a photograph is as complicated as the distorted roles ...

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