Robert J G Lange

Gender Identity in 19th and 20th Century Fact and Fiction Robert J G Lange

As a sub-concept of "self," gender identity has become a heated issue in public schools and facilities. Traditionally, such identity would be a compromise between one's self view, and the view of society of an individual. Now one's assertion of gender trumps society in both legal issues and group dynamics. This work takes a broad-ranging view of fictional and real people during the 19th and 20th Centuries in an attempt to elucidate how we arrived at what seems to be a substantial paradigm shift. This work asserts that this paradigm shift has been developing over the last two centuries, and one can ascertain that the concept of "virtual reality" has contributed to breaking down the rigid views of what is reality, or the "given" accepted by most people without question.