WGST 1808 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Androcentrism, Heterosexism, Yuppie

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Women's and Gender Studies
• Course: WGST 1808
• Professor: Debra Graham

Document Summary

Objectives: to look at stereotyping in relation to sexism, racism and heterosexism. Specimen types an example that serves to anchor the defining features of that particular organism. Social types myers-briggs type indicator personality inventory designed to identify preferences within the parameters of 16 types. Stereotype a conception of a person or group that reduces, essentializes, naturalizes and fixes (cid:858)differe(cid:374)(cid:272)e(cid:859). It (cid:271)asi(cid:272)ally puts a group of people into a box of extremes. Stereotyping tends to occur where there are power inequalities of power. Viewed against this standard, women/girls appear less (cid:894)tha(cid:374)(cid:895) hu(cid:373)a(cid:374), the (cid:862)other(cid:863). (cid:862)ma(cid:373)a(cid:859)s (cid:271)oy(cid:863) Gender stereotypes: these stereotypes are from cradle to grave. Example: tomboy or sport to des(cid:272)ri(cid:271)e girls (cid:449)ho are a(cid:272)ti(cid:448)e i(cid:374) thi(cid:374)gs su(cid:272)h as sports a(cid:374)d other (cid:862)(cid:373)ale(cid:863) thi(cid:374)gs. Usually, (cid:449)he(cid:374) a woman wants to be active in something that is male, like sports, they have to do it in a different way to make them more feminine.