SOC275H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Hegemonic Masculinity, Indian Anna, Masculinity
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Challenges the idea that gender difference produces gender inequality. When you discriminate against someone, the more people agree with the discrimination, it catches on and becomes a larger issue. When there"s a social category combined with power, it becomes powerful. Birth control takes away from the sex gender distinctions (sexual interactions are different now) Common explanations for gender difference: biological determinism (nature) ; physiological difference, differential socialization (nurture) ; taught and raised differently. Sex refers to the biological and physiological characteristics that de ne male and female. Gender refers to the socially and culturally constituted behaviours, activities, and attributes that a given society considers appropriate for men and women. Second wave feminisms: women who wanted gender equality and more rights for women, made a distinction between sex (male/female) and gender (social element of norms attached to sex difference) Women didn"t have access to higher education.
