HUMAN H141 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Media Culture, Stereotype, Meghan Trainor
28 May 2016
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Definitions: gender as a social construct, range of characteristics pertaining to, and differentiating between, masculinity and femininity a. i. Gender as a variable is never fixed d. ii. 1. Can be free floating by social constructionism: through institutions of families, media and government reinforce ideas of what gender is, always shifting. Examples: gender created to free constrictions attached to sex, sex-gender system: idea of social arrangements by which biological sexuality is transformed into socially significant gender, deeply engraved through repetition -> notion of pink and blue. Significance: meanings of masculine and feminine and extent of power and status in society, major areas of life are organized according to gender principles and shot through with conflicting interests of power and privilege c) Inequalities are institutionalized: feminists turn to gender to free our thinking from biological determinism, fan poaching, definitions a. i. When fans moderate the media in order to fit the individual"s wants/needs a. ii.
