FRHD 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Michael Kimmel, The Paper Bag Princess, Building Superintendent

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Family Relations and Human Development
• Course: FRHD 1020
• Professor: Shayna Sparling

Document Summary

Biological female who wants to be accepted as and live like a. Biological males who dress and act feminine. We learn behaviours from our interactions with the environment. The idea that boys are more aggressive is cultural expectation, not biological. Understand that they are either boys or girls. Understand gender is stable i. e. boys become men. But believe that if you change something, your sex has changed i. e. girl who wears her hair like a boy will become a boy. Remains the same if a person engages in cross-gender activities. Video asking kids if boys or girls. Doll became a girl when it wore a dress . Still a boy even though he"s wearing a skirt . Organized set of gender related beliefs that influence behaviour. 4 ways parents socialize their children: physical and verbal manipulations. Degree that children are handled more gently or roughly: stereotypical gender-identified objects.