Culture and Identity and Gender
- Created by: HBN_18
- Created on: 27-04-18 08:46
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- Gender
- Gender - Socially constructed cultural differences between two sexes which are learnt through socialisation
- Hegemonic identities - socially constructed stereotypes to do with each gender
- Men
- Tough
- Unemotional
- Sexually Dominant
- Women
- Gentle
- Sexually passive
- Emotianl
- Concerned with attractiveness to men
- Men
- Feminists
- Hegemonic Identities reinforce patriarchal culture
- Makes it difficult to construct identities different from hegemonic stereotypes
- Oakley
- Differential activity exposure
- Hegemonic Identities reinforce patriarchal culture
- Media
- Media promote "Beauty Myth" - Women should be assessed primarily in terms of their appearance
- Women are seen in limited roles, mostly consisting of 'Sex Objects'
- Changing Identities
- Females
- More positive role models of strong, independent and successful women.
- Womens growing success and equality
- Outperforming males in education
- A wider range of roles for women
- Decline in desire for marriage and children
- Males
- New Man
- Men are more caring, sharing, gentle, emotions, sensitive
- Willing to do fair share of housework
- Men are more caring, sharing, gentle, emotions, sensitive
- Male bodies used as sex objects
- Crisis of masculinity
- Mac an Ghail
- Mens dominant position as family bread-winners is threatened by the rise of women's equality and independant incomes
- Underachieving in education, 'mahco' manual work disappearing
- Mac an Ghail
- Growing concern with dress, appearance, personal grooming among men
- New Man
- Females
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