AUCS 150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Femininity, Gender Role, Bisexuality
9 Nov 2016
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Socially shared beliefs that certain qualities can be assigned to individuals based on. Many sex stereotypes are based on the notion of opposites. Sex: a person"s biological maleness or femaleness. What the typical women and men are like. What the typical woman and man should be like. Prejudice: negative evaluation of persons of their activities because they belong to a particular group. Sexism: prejudice based on a person"s sex. Dominance-orientation paternalism, derogatory beliefs against woman, heterosexual hostility. Protective paternalism, idealization of woman, desire for intimate relations. Openly endorsed stereotypic judgements about women and men and the way they should be treated. More subtle characterized by denial that women are still targets of discrimination, antagonism to women"s demands, lack of support for policies designed to improve women"s status. Stereotypes can harm males through unrealistic expectations. Men are more rigid than women in their insistence on stereotypic masculinity. Occupations lose status as they become dominated by women.
