LIN 225 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Tomboy
Document Summary
Gender is supposed to be completely natural because its apart of our everyday routine. Gender is not something we are born with and not something we have, but something we do and everything we perform. Gender performances are available to everyone, but with them come constraints on who can perform them. Sex: biological categorization based on biological sex. Understanding of male and female are primary social. Higher levels of testosterone are said to lead men to be more aggressive than women. Biological makeup and gender are not related/coexist it"s an excuse for social commentary. Women are not born they are made. When it comes to clothes and people don"t know the sex sale reps gear you towards more neutral colors such as yellow, green or white. Pink is more delicate and blue is more of an arbitrary sign of naturalization. The child should learn the gender on his own but society doesn"t allow that to happen.
