SOSC 1920 Lecture Notes - Hegemonic Masculinity, Gender Studies, Penis Envy
15 May 2013
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Candace west and don h. zimmerman, doing gender p. p. [28: sex: what was ascribed by biology -- anatomy, hormones and physiology, gender: was an achieved status--constructed through physiological, cultural and social means. [30: gender, sex and sex category must interlink to understand what is involved in being" a gendered person. Sex categorization: if people can be seen as members of relevant categories, than categorize them that way. [33: not only do we want to know the sex category of those around us, but we also presume that others are displaying it for us, in a decisive a faction as they can. Gender and accountability: members of society engage in descriptive accounting of states of affairs to one another and place it within some social framework. [35: to do" gender is to engage in behaviour at the risk of gender assessment.
