WS100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Judith Lorber, Laura Mulvey, Sexual Objectification
14 Dec 2017
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Ws 100 - a: lecture: thursday, october 19th: Advertising and the body: the social construction of gender: Social construction theory: as a process, gender creates the social differences that define woman and man. (judith lorber) Sexual scripts: social guidelines for human sexuality that shapes the sexual identities and behaviours of individuals (shaw and lee) Role-learning theory: suggests that images in the media become the models for how people construct their self-concepts and cultural ideals (andersen) The gendering of children"s bodies makes gender differences feel and appear natural (karin a. Socialization through parenting, symbolic uses of colour, school curriculum etc. Boys obeyed teachers" bodily instructions about one-half of the time (48%), while girls obeyed about 80% of the time (martin, 2008). Objectification: seeing the body as an objectseparate from its context (shaw and lee) Sexual objectification: the dehumanization of an individual by making them purely the object of another"s sexual pleasure, turning someone into a sex toy.
