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Chapter 3 Readings

Chapter 3 Readings. Judith Lorber. Representative Works. Breaking the Bowls: Degendering and Feminist Change Gender Inequality: Feminist Theories and Politics, Paradoxes of Gender Women Physicians: Careers, Status and Power

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Chapter 3 Readings

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  1. Chapter 3 Readings

  2. Judith Lorber

  3. Representative Works • Breaking the Bowls: Degendering and Feminist Change • Gender Inequality: Feminist Theories and Politics, Paradoxes of Gender • Women Physicians: Careers, Status and Power • Gender and the Social Construction of Illness and Gendered Bodies: Feminist Perspectives • Handbook of Gender and Women’s Studies • Revisioning Gender • The Social Construction of Gender

  4. Gender as Social Construct • Traits that are thought to be masculine or feminine differ dramatically from one culture and time period to another. This variation and adaptation to conditions and social pressures reinforces the idea that gender is a social construction rather than the result of biology. • Gender is a script that we learn how to play. Our society seems committed to the idea that there must be a one-to-one correspondence between the two scripts and the two kinds of bodies we insist on believing people are born into. • Why are there only two scripts? Why do we need scripts at all?

  5. The Social Construction of Gender • Everyone “does gender” without thinking about it • As a social institution, gender is one of the major ways human beings organize their lives (create assignments of rights and responsibilities) • Process of gendering and its outcomes are legitimated by religion, law, science, and societal values • As part of a stratification system, gender ranks men above women of the same race and class • In a gendered stratified society, what men do is usually valued more highly than what women do

  6. Question • Lorber states: “The continuing purpose of gender as a modern social institution is to construct women as a group to be the subordinates of men as a group.” Do you agree or disagree? Why?

  7. Cordelia Fine

  8. Representative Works • Introduction to The Britannica Guide to the Brain: A Guided Tour of the Brain and all its Functions • A Mind of its Own: How your Brain Distorts and Deceives • Delusions of Gender: How our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference

  9. Unraveling Hardwiring • Greater Male Variability: Men are more likely to be outliers, good or bad • Ability is not fixed, hardwired, or intrinsic, but is instead responsive to cultural factors that affect the extent to which talent is identified and nurtured • We believe it when we are told that certain abilities are hardwired, and as a result we limit ourselves

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