Anthropology 1025F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Enculturation, Gender Role, Gender Equality
2 Aug 2016
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Realized roles and expectations to gender varies between cultures. Main problem is seeing concept of gender outside own culture. Looks at roles people preform in their households and communities and the values and attitudes that people have regarding men and women. Females and males are born but women and men are products of their cultures definitions of man and woman. Gender identity= internalization of attitudes and expectations that belong to your gender that apply to how you walk, dress and speak. Learn gender construct of gender in your society and what you are expected to do. Cultures vary in roles men and women perform. Newborn babies muscles under developed (dependent at birth) The cultural construction of gender: model of behavior and attitude that a particular culture transmits to its members. Personal names one appropriate for boys, and one for girls. Ideological messages about women"s and men"s places in society. Speech mid 20th century- women could wear men"s clothing (pants)
