SDS131R Lecture Notes - Glass Ceiling, Ethnocentrism, Bell Hooks
15 Mar 2013
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Human nature is not one specific gender and instead there is a bit of male and female in everyone. State originated because of male dominance over women. State must include gender into the equation so all may achieve fulfilment. Both a united women of the world yet each can define your own version of feminism. Very few people have died under this ideology, don"t like violence. Sex: biological criteria (it is not dichotomous at least 3, male female and other) Some have ambiguous genitalia: cannot tell by looking at it the gender, bits and parts from male and female genitals. Gender: configuration of behaviours and activities making you masculine or feminine (socially constructed) Doing gender: symbolic interactionism: gender inequality is realized through our daily activities in interactions with others (e. g. women moving out of the way for men on sidewalk) Want to understand the understand why social institutions have gender bias. Gender relations are problematic and result in inequality.
