SOC 603 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: The Beauty Myth, Laura Mulvey, Breast Surgery
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Gender and dis/ability: disability is often ignored or rendered invisible o. Ableism, which can be defined both as active discrimination against disabled people and as attitudes that diminish disabled people"s competence and focus on disability as their defining characteristic o. For men, disability may strike at the heart of both physical and sexual performance. Men with disabilities are significantly less likely than disabled women to experience marital breakup. Sport has emerged as perhaps the key area in which masculinity is proved and defined. Throwing is one of the areas of greatest gender difference. Self-objectification that girls learn as inhabitants of female bodies in a gendered society. Girls who exhibited greater self-objectification also showed poorer throwing performance regardless of ethnic group. Found the gap between male and female performance widening between the age of three and puberty. Self-objectification can lead to poor sports performance o.
