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What did Tiger and Fox believe regarding sex and gender? |
That there is a genetic predisposition -Biogrammers - for men to be 'masculine' and women to be 'feminine'. |
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What did Alfred Kinsey do? |
Published 2 books exploring the sexuality of men and women (Sexuality of the Human Male, Sexuality of the Human Female, "The Kinsey Reports") , and developed a scale regarding sexuality |
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What did Adrienne Rich do? |
She was a radical feminist, famous for turning down the National Medal of the Arts in protest of Newt Gingrich voting to end funding to the Arts.Credited with bringing "the oppression of women and lesbians to the forefront of poetic discourse" |
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What has Talcott Parsons explored regarding gender roles? |
Parsons developed the model of the Nuclear family, presenting a model A - total role segregation and model B - total role integration. Most families are somewhere in the middle. He believed in the roles of the expressive female – affection and emotional support and the instrumental male – providing economic support and making decisions |
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Wilson and Barash studied what in order to learn about gender expression in humans? |
Sociobiologists Edward Wilson and David Barash studied insects and birds in order to learn more about human hierarchies. They did this to prove that females are biologically coy and nurturing, and males biologically strong leaders. These assumptions did not take into consideration higher order thinking and human complexity. |
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Why does Michelle Rosaldo argue against the separate spheres ideology being the cause of female inferiority in society? |
Rosaldo states that the idea that the development of "domestic" and "public" spheres create inequality because of female involvement of child-bearing is a historical model and hides the diverse causes and content of gender roles in different cultures. She was an anthropologist who explored womanhood and the levels of inequality in cultures all over the world. |
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How has Sigmund Freud developed views on gender? |
Freud formulated the Oedipus Complex, which revolves around a child's wish to possess the parent of the opposite sex, while simultaneously wishing to eliminate the parent of the same sex, who is perceived as a rival. |
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How does the Oedipus complex cause a child to determine their own gender identity? |
In the Oedipus complex, a boy develops incestuous desires toward his mother, regarding his father as a rival. Fearing that the father will cut off his penis in retaliation - a phenomenon Freud called castration anxiety - the boy represses his forbidden desires and finally comes to identify with the father, internalising his values and characteristics. |
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What has Ann Oakley done? |
Ann Oakley is a sociologist and liberal feminist, who believes that the formation of gender roles is the source of female oppression. She has written many books including The Sociology of Housework. |
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What did Erving Goffman study? |
Erving Goffman expanded on Herbet Blumer's theory of Symbolic Interactionism from a dramaturgical perspective, explaining that elements of human interactions depend on time, place and audience. |
