male identity
Being a man
Male identity is a person's sense of themselves as male—their psychological relationship to manhood and masculinity.
The term appears in discussions of gender development, social expectations, and how boys and men understand their place in the world: His male identity was shaped by his father's example.
It encompasses both innate feelings and culturally learned ideas about what it means to be a man.
- manhoodAdult male status
- masculinityMale gender characteristics
- machismoExcessive masculine pride
- virilityMasculine strength and potency
- man upEmbrace toughness, colloquially
vulnerability · fatherhood · man of the house · testosterone · self-concept · mental resilience · breadwinner · archetype · gender norms · mentor · rites of passage · role modeling · brotherhood · old boys club · husband · cultural narratives · beard · gender dysphoria
- men portraitsheadshots, studio portraits, close-ups, profile shots, posed portraits
- masculinitymanhood, machismo, masculinity, manliness, manly
- Elizabethan masculinityhonor, manhood, virility, knight, valor
male identityfemale identity
Self-concept as woman
feminine identity · femininity · womanhood · femaleness · girlhood