SOC101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Lgbt, Sexual Fantasy, Sexual Orientation
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Gender revolution since 1960s (continued from last class) Birth control became widely available: more choices women can make for themselves. More women than ever got doctorates as well as professional degrees in law, medicine, and. Many kinds of gender discrimination in employment and education became illegal. Women entered many previously male-dominated occupations business. Kathleen gershon"s study on young adults" attitudes: most young men and women want a committed relationship with a partner who would share paid work and family caretaking equitably. Deep and realistic fears that time demanding jobs, a dearth of childcare and family-leave options and their own high standard for an intimate would place their ideal scenarios out of reach. Doing gender (candace west & don zimmerman (1987) ) The (often unconscious) activity of managing one"s conduct in a way that is consistent to what is generally appropriate to one sex"s category: doing behaviours that are attached to these labels.
