Law & Legal Studies, Psychology

Dehumanized gender identity: Critical reflection on neuroscience, power relationship and law

The context of the body in all forms was observed from the eye of the male observer rather than the eye of the beholder of one’s body, says the author.

Author

Chetan Sinha, Associate Professor, Jindal Global Law School, O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat, Haryana, India.

Summary

This article discusses the gender question which is directed towards power, whether it is family dynamics, scientific domain or another sociocultural arena. Gender was not discussed as prominently in various forums integrating neuroscience and law. 

The gender movement comprising feminist and queer group movement addressed various issues of prejudices in the legal domain including, the logic derived from the dominant male value system. This metatheory to critically address gender in various domains has an important role in the interdisciplinary social sciences. 

The context of the body in all forms was observed from the eye of the male observer rather than the eye of the beholder of one’s body. The genesis of one’s existence in the context of gender was heavily theorized both in order to subjugate the matter of identity movement, ownership and self. 

The article discusses how the stereotypical view corresponding to the mythology and parasitic view prevalent in history was made as fact through discourse construction, scientific appropriations, and historical writings. 

Thus, identifying simplistic psychology of one’s agency, societal framing of the methods of socialization and institutionalizing the common sense of inferiority about one’s identity including the process of internalization along with the biological inferiority has maintained the gap in gender equality.

Published in: Open Science Framework (OSF)

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