Gender studies

society we, as children, are groomed to fit into the traditional gender roles by the purchases of gender-specific toys (ie. Trucks for boys, easy bake ovens for girls) as well as the purchase of blue and green clothing for boys and pink for girls. Many don’t even realize that they are ingraining things such as gender role in their children from such an early age. Some, however, break the mold and allow their children to cross the gender barriers that we as a society have set up and play with…

be looking at the question of normalcy and “homonormativity” in terms of the depoliticization, commercialization, and co-optation of queerness and LGBTQ activism, using the pride parade as an example. Gibson notes that queerness challenges presumed gender, familial, and sexual relations and norms in dominant culture (347). An overwhelming amount of research on LGBTQ parents focused on analyzing their effects on children in terms of their developmental outcomes (Gibson 350).…

they dealt with social norms, restricted rights, and strict expectations due to the creation of gender roles. During the Victorian Period, popular beliefs eventually lead to the creation of social norms, or as they were addressed at the time to be, “Separate Spheres”. Within these spheres women were assigned the role of an ideal…

The creation and support of sexist and racist thinking is continued/[PROLONGED????] by a combination of forces that work in ways such that when one is attacked, the others are able to uphold it. This is [also] true in the case of an individual force, such as the effect of an ideologically created ‘reality’ on members of a society, or the oppression of women of all class levels and races. They are intertwined, crossing paths and building on each other, impossible to rip apart completely,…

“Females and males” or “women and men”? Judith Lorber, in “Believing is Seeing: Biology as Ideology”, mentions that in the past, people believed that the basic bodily material of males and females are the same as male and female genitalia are developed from the same fetal tissues and therefore, infants can be born in ambiguous genitalia. She reveals that there are two main arguments in categorizing people in the past are not enough. The first argument is males and females are basically the…

a business executive is title “businessman” as if a woman with camera skills or business skills never exists. The effect of macho image on thought and reality is highly disastrous to the identity of women. Patriarchal bias can be traced in the way gender is attributed to words. The animate and cultured are designated masculine whereas the inanimate and uncultured are assigned feminine status. Whatever connotes greater value is masculine…

Ariel Salleh in her article “Sustaining Marx or Sustaining Nature?” explains the ideas of Marxist thought as articulated through a response to John Bellamy Foster and Paul Burkett. In her article, Salleh explains the notion of the “Great Chain of Being,” which is essentially a hierarchy of roles where God is placed at the top and men are not far beneath. Additionally, anything below the level of mankind (or men) is perceived as instruments aiding the higher levels to accomplish their any desire.…

socioeconomic bracket are given the ability to share information at rapid rates, with the knowledge and ability to do so. The digital divide can be further segmented in six demographic dimensions ethnicity, occupation, education, income, geography, and gender (Wilson, 2006). Within the extensive research on the digital divide, researchers found that distinguishing between economic, physical, geographic, political, social, and health barriers is common. In the United States, for example, internet…

Question 3. Why is the concept of “work” necessary for us to understand gender relations in cultural context? How does work relate to gender roles and attitudes? Understanding the concept of “work”, gives an idea about how the responsibilities, the control over the sources and the power are distributed between the genders, and how the arrangements such as who works for the survival of the families, who cares for the children, are made. The work is related to and may determine the family…

societal views, it is only in that it can be harder to spot until it is too late. However, there does not seem to be a significant relation between the high culture designation and how society views cyberbullying. It is a problem that hits across both genders, a wide variety of ethnicities, and throughout different economic classes; society as a whole recognizes it as such and has proceeded to give it at least the same time and attention as traditional…