Gender Flashcards
Gender is… while sex is ….
cultural, biological
sex is biological because
it describes our physical bodies in terms of distinguishing between male and female
gender is socially
constructed
R. Connell spoke of
Hegemonic Masculinity and Emphasized Feminity
What is Hegemonic Masculinity
cultural expectation for men to be successful and tough
Emphasized Feminity is
cultural expectation for women to be differential to men and overly focused on their own appearance
Hold my Beer showed women as
property
Reproduction of gender is through what 3 institutions
families in parental treatment of children, peer groups in interests like sport vs. jump rope, work in the gender wage gap
Erving Goffman supported what theory
SI
Erving Goffman suggested public washrooms are
separate not because of natural consequence but because of a cultural process
3 approached of feminist theory to gender
Liberal, Radical and Intersectional
Liberal approaches to gender
give women equal rights and opportunities by changing laws
Radical approaches to gender
remove patriarchy from all aspects of culture instead of saying women should have what men have
Intersectional approach to gender
how gender class and race intersect in terms of inequality for some and privilege for others
Dorothy Smith studied
how women daily experiences were connected with what she calls the relations of ruling
