Gender

Gender Theories Wood in this chapter of the book mainly focuses on the outlining of the four gender development approaches. Through these four approaches, individuals are able to appreciate the view point that they hold towards attributions focused on the study of gender development. All the things regarding how we perceive gender in whatever situation form up these approaches and also revolve around such approaches. They are comprised of cultural, critical, interpersonal and biological…

Doing Gender and Acting Woman: Thoughts on Butler’s Gender Performativity or Your Life as a Stage: Rome-who and Julie-what? Butler proposes, in Performative Acts and Gender Constitution, that gender does not precede the social expression of one’s gender identity, but that it is, rather, through those social performances and historic contexts that gender is constituted. Butler adopts de Beauvoir’s concept of the body as a historical situation, and rejects the idea of a precursory agent who…

follow and not stray, from their gender roles. Gender roles are defined on Oxford Dictionaries as, “The role or behavior learned by a person as appropriate to their gender, determined by the prevailing cultural norms.” From an early age, people are taught to conform to society's standards are stereotypes of how men and women should act and behave. It is widely believed by society that gender roles serve as a “framework” for one's self-image. Kids today rely on gender roles to help them…

named Jennifer. I hated my name. When I was growing up I would go by my favorite character’s names or my last name. I have always disliked how names and basically everything in society has a “gender.” In my opinion, I find it absurd that things such as certain sitting positions, sports, and colors have genders associated with them. Based off these stereotypes, I mainly did stereotypically masculine things. I love the color blue, I play ice hockey, and I hate makeup. Me liking blue and ice hockey…

“And whereas biological sex varies very little, gender varies enormously. What it means to possess the anatomical configuration of male or female means very different things depending on where you are, who you are, and when you are living” (Kimmel, 3). We are living in a time with continuous change, where people have a large scale of knowledge and opinions on sex and gender. There are people who believe you must identify with the anatomical configuration you were born with. Although this is not…

economic growth, social development and environmental sustainability. Gender equality and women's empowerment are human rights that lie at the heart of development and the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals. The centrality of women’s empowerment and the realization of women’s…

society. The social construction of gender is essentially how “gender divides work in the home and in economic production, legitimates those in authority, and organizes sexuality and emotional life” (Lorber, 1991, p. 103). In other words, it is how the members of American society perceive the inequalities of the sexes and thus, how we react accordingly in a socialized setting. Gender roles and gender role socialization influence the social construction of gender. Gender roles, according to…

One way to apply the blues with men’s problem with women is to argue how men come up with their lyrics. It states that the arguments eternalize negative stereotypes of women during 60’s, blues people follow their blues progression with some distortion and a quick tempo. It also follows a simple chord progression of blues-based rock and roll formulas. "The resulting noise makes it sound as if the listener's stereo volume is turned up too far, adding an element of urgency". It is the belief that…

about how social constructionism and doing gender, social deviance (or Goffman’s stigmatization) and intersectionality all work together, and how we can use them to reveal institutions and structures of inequalities. First and foremost, it’s important to be clear about the definition of social constructionism, or the development of reality through various social conventions. Judith Lorber argues (as does Stony Brook University’s Michael Kimmel) that the gender differences that are thought to…

Gender is a social construct; it is a set of learned behaviours that inform how we present ourselves in society and is “produced, negotiated and sustained at the level of everyday social interaction” (Jackson & Scott, 2002). Gender is not binary but a spectrum going from identifying as male at one end, non-binary or agender in the middle and female at the other end. My gender identity as female has had an effect on my life experience from birth through a number of ways such as how I feel about…