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21 Cards in this Set
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Judith Lorber's "Night to His Day": The Social Construction of Gender"
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-Society created gender roles that are separate from "sex" - gender is complex, not biological
-People "do" gender in order to organize their lives -"Bending" gender only makes it stronger |
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Rita Freedman's "Myth America Grows Up"
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How kids, especially girls, are taught as they grow up to fulfill their gender roles.
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Catharine A. MacKinnon, "Consciousness Raising"
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About developing a feminine consciousness - seeing the invisible gender boundaries that exist all around.
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Daisy Hernandez's "Bringing Feminism a la Casa"
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Women in her social circle refuse to try to progress as a gender, because the institution is so strong.
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Michael Kimmel's "Masculinity as Homophobia: Fear, Shame, and Silence in the Construction of Gender Identity"
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Defines the characteristics of traditional manhood. Men are judged primarily by other men - they do gender for themselves, not for women.
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R.W. Connell's "Hegemonic Masculinity and Emphasized Femininity"
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Emphasized Femininity is the opposite of Hegemonic Masculinity - both are the epitome of their gender.
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Michael Kimmel's "Invisible Masculinity"
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American men have no history as gendered selves.
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Allan G. Johnson's "The Gender Knot: What Drives Patriarchy"
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Patriarchy is oppressive because women and men need each other for life and existence, why should one be above the other?
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Barrie Thorne's "Creating a Sense of 'Opposite Sides'"
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- Borderwork is defined by Thorne as interaction based on and strengthening gender boundaries. It is practiced every day by everyone to reinforce institutionalized differences between genders. In the article she observed children in the classroom and playground and they exhibited early signs of the influence on gender by society. Adults exaggerate differences and exacerbate the problems between little girls & boys.
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Curtis Sittenfeld's "Your Life as a Girl"
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A 2nd person account of the problems that girls must face as they grow up, and learn to fulfill their gender role.
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Michael Messner's "Barbie Girls versus Sea Monsters"
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Messner describes a scenario in which there is little girls and boys soccer team. The difference in their choice of names and the way they conduct themselves emphasize how children create gender roles even at a young age, because of the influence the past generation has had on them.
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Susan J. Douglas's "Fractured Fairy Tales"
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The media only presents two options for women: evil, old, powerful women or young, innocent, submissive, ever-pleasing girl who never complains.
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Melissa A. Milkie's "Contested Images of Femininity: An Analysis of Cultural Gatekeepers".
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A critique of the media for perpetuating gender stereotypes. Magazine editors defend their actions by saying that the images in their magazines were because of the influence of the art world, the influence of advertisers in the magazines, and just the fact that it's our culture.
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Ariel Levy's "Raunch Culture"
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pornography and promiscuity has become mainstream and a way to become popular. For example, 20 years ago would ruin an actor's career, and today it makes it.
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Naomi Wolf's "Beauty Myth"
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Whenever women make progress as a gender, society creates a higher standard of behavior for them that is unattainable for most
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Susan Bordo's "Anorexia Nervosa"
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Women with anorexia are obsessed with having total control over their bodies, because they fear if they don't, they'll never stop eating and be fat
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Ashley Mears and William Finlay "Not Just a Paper Doll"
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models, emotional labor
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Blaisure and Allen's "Feminists and the Ideology and Practice"
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study of feminist marriages and how feminist marriages practice vigilance in marriage using the 5 processes. The study also discusses if they practice what they preach
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Betty Friedan's "The Problem That Has No Name"
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housewives are bored, they are dissatisfied with life, let women know they weren't alone in their dissatisfaction, Freidan expressed many women's thoughts about marriage in the 50s
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Ann Ferguson's "Gay Marriage"
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Should feminists support gay marriage??? they should because they support civil rights, and they shouldn't because it further support the institution of marriage which oppresses women
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Kathryn Edin and Maria Kefalas "Why Poor Women Put Motherhood Before Marriage"
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poor women put motherhood before marriage because they feel strongly about marriage, and want to test it by having children first. Marriage is really important. They believe that being a mother is more feminine than being a wife.
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