SOCY 1016 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Femininity, Masculinity, Determinism
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We are born that same but what " us is the process of socialization. Many of the differences between men and women are actually not gender differences at all, but rather differences that are the result of being in different positions or in different arenas. It"s not that gendered individuals occupy these ungendered positions, but that the positions themselves exciti behaviors we see as gendered. Women contend with an equally exaggerated ideal of femininity, which is called. Organized around compliance with gender inequality and is oriented to accommodating. Emphasized femininity the interests and desires of men. Exaggerates gender differences as a strategy of adaptation to men"s power stressing empathy and nurturance. Mean different things to different people at different points in time. Not all masculinities and femininities are created equal. We set the definitions in opposition to a set of others - racial minorities, sexual minorities.
