Gender and changing gender identities
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- Created on: 02-01-20 09:16
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- Gender
- How gender helps shape identity
- Gender has a significant effect on our identity
- Especially if we live in a patriarchal society
- Gender is socially constructed via gender role socialisation
- Boys and girls are taught to conform to gender hegemonies
- Gender identity changes over time and place
- Gender has a significant effect on our identity
- Changing gender identities
- Both feminine and masculine identities have undergone massive changes in the 20th century
- Girls no longer conform to the norms of 20th century femininity
- There is a range of feminine identities such as the traditional identity, the breadwinner, the career woman, the single mother, the laddette etc.
- Men had a traditional role as breadwinners
- This came under threat in the 20th century as women went out to work
- Girls no longer conform to the norms of 20th century femininity
- Both feminine and masculine identities have undergone massive changes in the 20th century
- Theories and studies
- Wilson: Gender roles are a product of biology
- Oakley, gender role socialisation is done through 4 processes: manipulation, canalisation, verbal appellation and different activities
- Women in 2017 are more likely to see themselves as equal to men rather than subordinate
- Connell: subordinate and marginalised masculinity
- Mac and Ghaill: crisis of masculinity
- Faludi: Men respond to a crisis of masculinity by blaming feminism and engaging in sexual violence
- Perspectives
- Feminists reject the view that femininity and masculinity are the products of biology
- Feminists argue gender identity is fluid
- How gender helps shape identity
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