GEN110 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Gender Role

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Jak “awyer, On Male Lieration, Liberation, Vol 15, Nos 6, 7 & 8, 1970.

What did the oe’s liberatio oeet illuiate about the situatio of oe and the

gender role [sex role is the term used in the article] issues of men?

Sayer’s arguet is ot oly about e’s liberatio, but about hua rights ore broadly.

According to him, in what ways are men dehumanized?

Stereotypes of men to

• Dominant

o Over others

o Over women

• Achieving

• Successful

• Ranked on a scale of failure

Overcoming stereotypes

• Women reacting to the effects of being dominated

• The choice about whether men are the enemy in the battle against oppression is up to men

themselves

• 'being a man' and 'being a woman' are restrictive roles designed to establish sexual identity

• Men's sexual relation to women from the perspective of traditional social expectations

o Trained to focus on a woman's body, face, and clothes: inhibiting their ability to relate to

her as a whole person

• "Persons bent on maintaining dominance are inhibited from developing themselves"

• Women's liberation movement has stressed need for a better model for human behaviour

• Sex should not be limited by role stereotypes that define appropriate behaviour

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