SOCI 118 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Gender Pay Gap, High-Heeled Footwear, Gender Inequality
Document Summary
Gender is about creating and emphasizing distinctions between largely similar members of the human race. Gender is about reinforcing inequalities between genders and between people belonging to the same gender category. 1500s: persian army under abbas i defeated much of europe. Among the most vicious and effective killers who have ever lived. Tickled down to other high status men, who wanted to be associated with warriors. High heels denoted superiority for men; distinction in which women excluded. King louis xiv: decreed nobody could wear higher heels than his. Women with high heels would receive the same penalty as a witch in early american colony. Gender a broad ideology justifying much of social inequality. Exaggerates the importance and clearness of biological distinctions based on sexual procreation: Male bodied and female bodied sex categories. Divides world into masculine and feminine gender. Much social energy goes into creating and maintaining. Now only women and other imitating women tend to wear.
