Summary Of The Social Construction Of Gender By Judith Lorber

In the excerpt The Social Construction of Gender by Judith Lorber, she explained how gender is a part of a structured system and how it is also maintained as a process. Judith Lorber concluded her excerpt by stating that gender equality “is produced and maintained by identifiable social process and built into the general social structure and individual identities” (67). In Black Feminist Thought by Patricia Hill Collins, she explained how Black women were considered oppressed because of their gender as well as the way they were raised and taught to do things. I agree with both of these author’s main points because this is how race and class is looked at in society. In both of these excerpts it seems that both authors are stating that gender and sex are looked at as binary subjects. Due to gender and sex being looked at as a binary subject it makes it hard for people in society to create gender equality. For example, in The Social Construction of Gender Judith Lorber described how people see fathers single-handedly taking care of their children and they smile at them “approvingly” and how that is an unconscious feeling of being proud of that father because he is a ‘man’ doing that. In Black Feminist Thought Collins described how a women who was raised in the …show more content…
This shows that right away when a baby is born their gender and sex is automatically assumed and that this is how society is formed. That is the start of how our society goes upon creating different subordinate and insubordinate groups based upon gender, race, and class. It is like an endless cycle due to the fact that it seems like it starts at birth and then as the baby grow older that is when society starts to take its toll when it comes the social