WSTB13H3 Lecture Notes - Media Literacy, Smurfette, Power Tool

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3 Nov 2011

School

UTSC

Department

Women's and Gender Studies

Course

WSTB13H3

Professor

Caleigh Cruickshank

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The roots of our literature on media come to as when we"re children. Children are mass consumers of media, average child watches or re-watches one movie a day and has at least. Gender matters for babies, intensely color coded. Pink and blue is a relatively a new phenomenon. In the 1800s up until the 1930"s baby blue was for girls, and pink for men because it was a watered down version of red. For a long time little boy wore pink and little girls wore blue. Toys are used to further things like the pink and blue project. Took pictures of different families around the world asking kids/children to display all their pink and blue belongings. Boys are encouraged to embrace all except pink while girls are taught to only embrace pink. Gender representation in creative worlds that are basically limitless. Yet gender representation is not to see creative in animation television.

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We live in a highly gender differentiated society. Boys and girls start receiving differential treatment from the world almost as soon as they are born. Throughout childhood, they are exposed to images of males and females that are highly stereotypical (e.g., Bob is the builder and Wendy is his assistant). As your textbook indicates, children very quickly become knowledgeable about gender stereotypes and their stereotypes are adult-like by 11 years of age. And, the cycle repeats itself with each succeeding generation.

Scholars in many different disciplines have long discussed the social inequality and personal disappointments gender stereotypes help create. The dos and don't s for men and women have long been the topic of academic debates, political rallies, and self-help books. Given these circumstances, it appears that living in a gender neutral world would be a step in the right direction; perhaps many social problems can be eliminated if this were to happen.

Given such a possibility, would you be willing to raise your children in a gender neutral manner? Could you? Pros? Cons? There is a lot to consider...

Cite at least one reference

28. A father believes that certain behaviours are more appropriate for boys than for girls. His wife has heard him share these beliefs and she wonders whether they are partly responsible for the fact that he relates differently to his son, with whom he tends to use more verbal and physical prohibition than he does with his daughter. In this example, the father's beliefs would be examples of , while the fact that he treats his children differently depending on their gender demonstrates the concept of A) gender identities, gender constancies B) sex-role stereotypes; gender preferences C) sex-role stereotypes; sex typing D) gender identities; sex typing E) gender identities; gender behaviour

28. A father believes that certain behaviours are more appropriate for boys than for girls. His wife has heard him share these beliefs and she wonders whether they are partly responsible for the fact that he relates differently to his son, with whom he tends to use more verbal and physical prohibition than he does with his daughter. In this example, the father's beliefs would be examples of , while the fact that he treats his children differently depending on their gender demonstrates the concept of A) gender identities, gender constancies B) sex-role stereotypes, gender preferences C) sex-role stereotypes; sex typing D) gender identities, sex typing E) gender identities, gender behaviour

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