GWST 1501 Lecture Notes - Gender Studies, Bigender, Genderqueer
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Furthermore, it sees biology described by klement, as providing the raw materials, and social institutions, culture, history, and individual personality as what shapes those raw materials into gendered human beings (klement lecture 3). An example that supports how the social construction approach described by connell is the sex roles socialization which provided the framework of gender studies, whereby there was a straightforward account of how people acquired gender. Babies are identified either male or female and put in pink and blue clothes respectively . Is that from infant to adulthood, each male and female both have appropriate behavior, role, and attitude in the society. These examples illustrate that is socially constructed and not natural because they believe it abnormal for women to be working and earning money. They constructed the idea that men are to be in the front while women should be behind them.