CRM/LAW C113 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Parental Leave, Michael Kimmel, Gender Inequality
6 Nov 2018
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Sex is the biological or anatomical apparatus - physical traits, sex organs, chromosomes, chemicals/hormones (male/female) while gender is the cultural meanings attached to those differences (masculinity/femininity) Gender isn"t something one is, it is something one does through interactions with others. We enact the traits prescribed to us (sex roles). This phrase refers to the fact that gender is performed and is based on cultural meanings and expectations. We are sorted into distinct institutional and social arrangements that naturalize differences based on sex. According to michael kimmel, gender inequality is not the product of gender difference, but rather gender difference is the product of gender inequality, the outcome of domination, and legitimated through the contrast between male/female. Idea that its part of a whole system how our culture operates. Men and women are not a homogenous, fixed group with common characteristics. Privilege and subordination people can be boiled down to one of their essential quality. assign people to categories.
