Rhetoric can be defined as the art of effective persuasive speaking or writing that uses figures of speech and other compositional techniques. In the article Gender, Games, and Toys: Role Communication and Socialization through Play by Bond Benton, it discusses on how femininity and masculinity are distinct, constructed, and culturally enforced. Students will investigate how gender roles are reinforced through children’s games and toys.
Basic elements of gender construction for example the masculine emphasis on hierarchy, task and instrumental communication versus the feminine emphasis of egalitarianism, process, and relational communication (Tannen,1990). He wants students to have a basic understanding on how people are directed towards gender roles by cultural texts and artifacts. He believes that students should be able to reflect on how one’s sex is distinct from gender and how people deviate from traditional culturally constructed roles. He emphasis on how students should consider ways in which the privileges of one’s culture punishes certain gender roles. He removes a majority of the abstraction by moving the discussion of gender to a reflection focusing on childhood play. …show more content…
The focus of his research activity allows students to replicate the research by analyzing how certain toys and games are gendered towards masculine, while others are generally directed towards a feminine audience. He believed that through this process it teaches both to students. How gender is transmitted and allows for speculation on how gender roles are defined even at an early age (Benton,2013). Through the discussion of gendered play leads to an understanding of gender roles and provides an opportunity for reflection on implications of the roles and how that are communicated or transmitted
Basic elements of gender construction for example the masculine emphasis on hierarchy, task and instrumental communication versus the feminine emphasis of egalitarianism, process, and relational communication (Tannen,1990). He wants students to have a basic understanding on how people are directed towards gender roles by cultural texts and artifacts. He believes that students should be able to reflect on how one’s sex is distinct from gender and how people deviate from traditional culturally constructed roles. He emphasis on how students should consider ways in which the privileges of one’s culture punishes certain gender roles. He removes a majority of the abstraction by moving the discussion of gender to a reflection focusing on childhood play. …show more content…
The focus of his research activity allows students to replicate the research by analyzing how certain toys and games are gendered towards masculine, while others are generally directed towards a feminine audience. He believed that through this process it teaches both to students. How gender is transmitted and allows for speculation on how gender roles are defined even at an early age (Benton,2013). Through the discussion of gendered play leads to an understanding of gender roles and provides an opportunity for reflection on implications of the roles and how that are communicated or transmitted