SOC275H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Lionel Tiger, Gender Role, Human Male Sexuality
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Gendered intimacies: communication, friendship, love, and sex (page 281) The need for intimacy is fundamentally human but we express it in gendered ways. Gender intimacy explored by examining communication, friendship, love, and sexuality: love as in romantic love, not parental love or any other form. Gendering of intimate life is the result of historical and social developments. Today, women are considered emotional experts relative to men. Much of the historical view of gendered intimacies rested on sexist views of women"s. Women were diffident friends and fickle lovers capacities for higher mental and emotional processes. Lionel tiger argued that the gender division of labour in hunting and gathering societies led to deeper and more durable friendships among men biologically based human adaptation. Despite tigers theories, north americans have reversed the historical notion of intimacy since the early 1970s, fuelled by two related developments: first, feminism began to celebrate the solidarity among women.
