SOC 101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Gayle Rubin, Hegemonic Masculinity, Gender Role

• School: University of Miami
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 101
• Professor: La Torre Aurelie

Document Summary

Feminism = men and women should be given equal opportunities and respect. Sex = biological difference b/w men and women. Gender = social position built with social norms. John gray wrote book men and venus: men & women differ so fundamentally that they might as well be from different planets. Sexed bodies in premodern world: b/w ancient greece mid c19 had one-sex model. Only one body (male) and female was inverted version and inferior. Concepts of sex and paradoxes of gender: essentialism = line of thought that explains social phenomena in terms of natural ones. Characteristics: fixity, lack of history and biological determinism. Stuff you do in social world is direct result of who you are in the natural world. Gender differences much more fluid than we think. Gender difference in other cultures: navajo society of native americans. Weird genitals or declares themselves one, middle thing.