1 / 17

September 28 th

September 28 th. Sign in and deposit participation cards Lecture 3: Imagining Gender Homework: Chapter Seven, The Gendered Classroom (GS) “The Gender Conundrum” (CR) http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1682256,00.html Research paper #1 due next Monday. Riddle to start off….

carlosmiddleton
Download Presentation

September 28 th

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. September 28th • Sign in and deposit participation cards • Lecture 3: Imagining Gender • Homework: • Chapter Seven, The Gendered Classroom (GS) • “The Gender Conundrum” (CR) http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1682256,00.html • Research paper #1 due next Monday

  2. Riddle to start off… • A man and his son are driving in a car one day, when they get into a fatal accident. The man is killed instantly. The boy is knocked unconscious, but he is still alive. He is rushed to hospital, and will need immediate surgery. The doctor enters the emergency room, looks at the boy, and says... …"I can't operate on this boy, he is my son."

  3. Lecture 3 Imagining Gender: The social construction of Gender

  4. Not This… Gender Differences ↓ Inequality But this… Inequality ↓ Gender Differences Gender is a Power Relationship

  5. The Social Construction of Gender • Social constructs: classifications of reality that are agreed upon or accepted • Gender Ideology: a set of beliefs about the definition, roles, status, and relationships of males and females • We are socialized into a gender system (culture) that tells us how to act. • And, through our actions, whereby we accept, reject, and/or modify these ideas were recreate gender.

  6. Gendered Society

  7. The same, but different? • “Gender means sameness” and “gender means difference”? • How does gender create differences between men and women? • How does gender create sameness among all women and among all men?

  8. Thinking Beyond Gender Roles • Social Roles: behavior expected from a status position • Gender is present in all social roles, NOT a social role in itself • As a master status position, gender affects how we are expected to perform roles and how our actions are judged • Master Status Position: status positions that affect all other social positions in society

  9. Just What are Women Lacking? • A 2006, study surveyed 935 alumni of the International Institute for Management Development in Switzerland found that while the view of an ideal leader varied from place to place — in some regions the ideal leader was a team builder, in others the most valued skill was problem-solving • But whatever was most valued, women were seen as lacking it. • Respondents in the United States and England, for instance, listed “inspiring others” as a most important leadership quality, and then rated women as less adept at this than men. • In Nordic countries, women were seen as perfectly inspirational, but it was “delegating” that was of higher value there, and women were not seen as good delegators.

  10. Interacting with Gender • Our identities, gendered and otherwise, do not express some authentic inner "core" self but are the dramatic effect (rather than the cause) of our actions and behavior • Gender identities arise out of social interaction • We organize our behavior and activities in the context of social life to become gendered

  11. Doing Gender • Gender is accomplished by managing our behavior in relation to normative conceptions of appropriate attitudes and activities for particular sex categories • appears to be the natural • reproduce social structure

  12. Gender Accomplishment depends on: • Where we are • Context/Social environment • Who we are with • Status positions • Social roles • What we are doing • What is the goal of the social interaction?

  13. “The Hot Chick” • How is gender (male/female) accomplished (or not) in this film clip?

  14. How would gender be accomplished in these situations: • A young man on a date? • A mother at a family dinner? • Two guys watching a football game? • What is important in these examples? • Context • Participants • Roles

  15. Can you think of some ways that youdo gender?

  16. “Doing Gender” with Language • The dominant social status of men in our society is reflected in language • Man as an indefinite pronoun • Exclusion of women in visualization • Pronoun usage perpetuates male/female roles • Status positions • Sex ascription to non-human objects • Nurture, owned, small/dependent VS. decisive, strong, controlling

  17. Optional Performances • We ALL perform gender – traditional or not • Not a question of whether to DO a gender, but what form that performance will take. • Gender norms and the binary understanding of Masculine/Feminine can be changed by our behavior

More Related