TY - JOUR ID - 13953 TI - Our Sense of Identity: “Who am I?” Gender and Cultural Studies JO - Journal of Applied Linguistics and Applied Literature: Dynamics and Advances JA - JALDA LA - en SN - 2820-8986 AU - Sabouri, Hossein AD - Associate Professor of English Literature, Department of English Language and Literature, Tabriz University, Tabriz, Iran Y1 - 2019 PY - 2019 VL - 7 IS - 1 SP - 215 EP - 228 KW - Identity KW - Culture KW - Gender KW - Gender studies KW - Cultural studies DO - 10.22049/jalda.2019.26497.1129 N2 - Identity is seen as a cultural and social construct, which indicates how we have been embodied and how we might represent ourselves. The knowledge that identities are the outputs of discourses is a familiar characteristic of some societal concepts. Gender, as an identity or a sense of our identity we build for ourselves, rather than something we are born with, is a constructed cultural category and is based on power relations and social norms that are part of a social system. Through gender as well as cultural studies, this paper will curiously look at the motion of mobility of self (identity) as it has been constructed in culture. The researcher also wants to note that the discursive practices such as the normal beliefs, social systems, and substantial behaviors of a cultural, religious, or social group view identity not as a kind of recognition with a group having common characteristics but as a construction among hidden cultural, political, and ideological intentions. Therefore, it is said that identity is in process and can be shaped by culture, media, and public opinion. UR - http://jalda.azaruniv.ac.ir/article_13953.html L1 - http://jalda.azaruniv.ac.ir/article_13953_a94a2f8a0188dd48892fc02921a58f2e.pdf ER -