REC100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Laura Jane Grace, Emma Watson, Heforshe

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Recreation and Leisure Studies
• Course: REC100
• Professor: Kelley Mc Clinchey

Document Summary

Understand how we both resist and reproduce gender roles, & brown, c. s. sexting, catcalls, and butt slaps: how gender stereotypes and perceived group norms predict sexualized behaviour. The secret life of transgender rocker tom gabel. What is gender and why are we discussing it: Gender: cultural connections associated with one"s biological sex. How society determines roles and expectations for behaviour based on one"s biological sex. What it means to be a woman, man or transgendered individual. Most of us become gendered by the culture that we live in from the moment our biological sex is known. We buy items for babies still in the whom based off of the gender. (blue for boys, pink for girls) As young children, we learn how to be boys and girls through play. The toys/books we are exposed to reveal what kinds of activities and behaviours are deemed appropriate for our gender.