SOCA03Y3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8.7: Hegemonic Masculinity
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Gender relations: organizing principles that shape and order interactions between as well as the relative social importance of women and men. Transgender: an umbrella term for a range of people who do not fit into normative constructions of gender and sex. Hegemonic masculinity: the normative idea of dominant masculinity. Emphasized femininity: the normative ideal of femininity, based on women"s comparative with their own subordinations to men. Clothing, treatment and interactions are formed due to gender expectation. Education: boys and girls are given different toys based on their gender. Hot wheels for boys and barbies for girls. f. Facility members call on male students more often than women. Media : gender dimensions are repeated in and reinforced by all forms of media. The great change in canada"s workforce was the dramatic increase in women employment, in 2009, women were more employed than men.
