SOCL 2001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Origins Game Fair, Gender Inequality, Birth Certificate
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1 in 6 girls take the purity pledge: girls as young as 5 is encouraged to take it. 100s of purity balls in the us, wilson"s is the most extravagant: father and daughter relationship father is significant in her life. If girls don"t have a good relationship with their father, they will turn to other males: giving pieces of your heart away, not being able to give away a whole heart when married. 2 types of families: deeply engrained and newbies to purity movement. Holding back women? feel immature, not experiencing the same thing as everyone else, held back from the real world, Sex biological: male/female, primary traits, reproductive organs, secondary traits, height, tone of voice, body hair. Gender choice: masculine/feminine, behaviors and attitudes, example: way males and females dress. Birth certificate lists your sex strictly biology. Tom boy and girly man is gender society labels. Gender - opens and closes doors to property, power, and prestige: always favor men.