WS100 Midterm: WS100OC Midterm Review.docx
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Be able to define the following term: gender. The assignment of masculine and feminine characteristics to bodies in cultural contexts. Gender refers to how we are socialised into particular male or female roles in society. This is a way in which biology translates into a natural skill. The same is true of girls and women who are seen as biologically more nurturing (because they might have a uterus) and therefore better equipped than men to raise children. Gender includes the traits we learn daily that identify us as men or women. We tend to be unaware of the countless ways we observe others in their performance of gender and how we incorporate those behaviours into our personal scripts: patriarchy. Defined at a system where male dominate because power and authority are in the hands of adult men: a vindication of the rights of. Women (1792: lesbian feminism, lesbian baiting, third-wave.
