WSTA01H3 : Summary on the Social Construction of Gender reading.
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The social construction of gender j main points. Not the result of sex, physiology, hormones or genetic predispositions. It is produced/maintained by identifiable social processes and built into the general social structure and individual identities deliberately. Social order in western societies organized around race, class, gender inequality. The continuing purpose of gender as a modern social institution is to construct women as a group to be the subordinates of men as a group. Gender cannot mean simply the cultural appropriation of biological sexual difference. The social construction of gender j detailed notes. Gender signs and signals so ubiquitous that we usually fail to notice them unless they are missing j we feel uncomfortable until we have successfully placed the other person in a gender status; otherwise, feel socially dislocated. In addition to men and women, a person can be transvestite (dresses in opposite gender clothes), transsexual (person who has had a sex-change)