HREQ 1920 Lecture Notes - Peer Pressure, Rodney King, Gender Role

• School: York University
• Department: Human Rights and Equity Studies
• Course: HREQ 1920
• Professor: Elizabeth Brule

Document Summary

Gender is changeable some experiences are more strongly gendered than others; gender interacts with forms of categorization such as race, class, Individual experiences of gender are diverse there are two near universal phenomena that define gender in every culture. Virtually every single society differentiates people on the basis of gender. Every known society is based on male domination. Gender refers to cultural definitions of masculinity and femininity the meaning of maleness and femaleness. What it means to be a man or woman will vary in four significant ways: The meanings of gender differences vary from one society to another the experiences of being masculine or feminine vary within any one culture over time. The meaning of masculinity and femininity will change over the life course as any individual person grows. The meanings of gender will vary among different groups of women and men within any particular culture at any particular time.