ANTHROP 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: They Wait, Cultural Anthropology, Restrictiveness
19 May 2016
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Gender constructs in our society (based on stereotypes): Masculinity strong, providers, athletic, heterosexuality as norm . Emily martin is an american medical anthropologist. Studies college and university first year anatomy and biology textbooks to see how gender is represented to students. Wrote up her results in an article called the egg and the sperm (in text) Gender stereotypes impact everyone (including scientists) and how they think, write, interpret and represent their data. In the process, they often reproduce some problematic stereotypes and/or inaccurate information about reproduction. Women"s bodies are represented as passive and helpless or as potentially dangerous, unlike men"s reproductive processes. Scientists emphasize gender inequalities women"s reproductive processes are portrayed as problematic, the female body is wasteful and a broken machine. men"s reproductive processes like spermatogenesis, are viewed as spectacular or even miraculous. As a breakdown of the body, and a moreover, that the body needs intervention. Refers to cultural rules and expectations regarding sexual activity.
