GGR124H1 Lecture Notes - Relative Change And Difference, Social Reproduction, Femininity
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Ggr 124 lecture notes: gender and the suburbs. Gender is a set of social relations that organize people into society. Gender is performed based on socially accepted ideas of masculinity and femininity. Masculinity: short hair, facial hair, dress code, masculine language. Femininity: hair length and color, make-up, clothes, caring roles. We act out these ways of being based on a spectrum of socially accepted ideas of femininity and masculinity. These performances are not necessarily tied to your biological identity (sex) as male or female. Therefore a man can act very feminine but his masculine identity maybe questioned and he may be assumed to be queer since he doesn t fit the normative role what a male ought to act like. The social construction of gender means that we often assume a normative gender code based on how we should act in society. The construction of gender is a geographical one because gender takes place at varying scales.
