POL378H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Sex Segregation, Paraphilia, Sex Assignment
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Gender deployed into sexual order through highly psychologized and medicalized field of knowledge production centered on gaining access to human life by controlling behavioural system that upheld sexual order. Social order maintained through socialization of individuals into normative behaviours. Gender emerged to uphold social and sexual order in postwar america. Behaviourism & functionalism : the management of life through social. Functionalism: relationship between individual socialization into norms and social order as question of social control. Understand how person"s "truth" came to be learned. Disruptive / deviant behaviour is the result of certain interactions. Women"s role was that of mother / wife. Refuted idea that sex / gender was innate but rather learned. Gender role acquired through imprinting - inciting responses to stimuli. Gender has little to do with physical body. Popular appeal of feminist theory led to production of knowledge about gender. Gender as a point of intervention for optimizing the reproduction of human populations.
