Julia Arduini Kelly Costlow Jennifer Crisp Kaitlin Mitchell David Quintanilla Marissa Weber

1. ender Julia Arduini Kelly Costlow Jennifer Crisp Kaitlin Mitchell David QuintanillaMarissa Weber

2. Misrepresentation • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gkIiV6konY

3. Goals • Show that there is a difference between sex and gender. • Display how gender roles affect our daily lives, actions and way of thinking • Present ways to challenge these assumptions and stereotypes

4. Ground Rules • Respect all people’s ideas • Keep an open mind • Step up, step back • Lean into your discomfort • Take risks

5. Definitions Exploring the difference between sex and gender

6. Sex • the biological and physiological characteristics that define men and women can be physical-presence of penis, vagina, or absence/presence of both • endocrinological-presence of testosterone or estrogen • chromosomal-presence or absence of Y chromosome, X chromosome, or multiple X or missing X chromosomes • Klinefelter’sSyndome (XXY) • example- female, male, intersexual

7. Gender • Socially constructed roles, behaviors, activities, and attributes that a given society considers appropriate for men and women men play with trucks and girls play with dolls

8. Examples of Gender • Women do housework • Men mow the lawn • Women raise children • Men work • examples-masculine, feminine, androgynous

9. “Night to his Day” • Gender, like culture, is a human production that depends on everyone constantly doing it • Set process: • Assignment of sex based on children’s genitalia when they are born • babies are then dressed to display the sex category • a sex category becomes a gender status through naming and dress • once a child’s gender is evident, others treat those in one gender differently from those in the other and children respond by feeling and behaving differently • gender is not innate, gender is a process and a structure • “there is no core or bedrock human nature below these endlessly looping processes of the social production of sex and gender, self and other, identity and psyche”

10. Growing Up Gendered Growing up Feminine • Appearance Still Count • Be Sensitive and Caring • Negative Treatment by Others • Be Superwoman • There Is No Single Meaning of Feminine Anymore Growing up Masculine • Don’t Be Female • Be Successful • Be Aggressive • Be Sexual • Be Self-Reliant • Embody and Transcend Traditional Views of Masculinity

11. Body Image

12. Body Image Text In Question • Use one word to describe the ideal female body • Use one word to describe ideal male body

13. Representation as Body Image • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBQz921BBlI&feature=relmfu • 6:51

14. Take Notice… • Observe the room… • What is the difference between how males and females are sitting?

15. Taking Up Space • Women are becoming smaller and smaller influences how men and women think about themselves.

16. Today 10 million women suffer from eating disorders. • The US population is 300 million people, presumably 150 million women. • That means about 6% of all US women suffer from anorexia and bulimia. • But this is also problematic for men who cannot achieve this body image naturally as well.

17. “Out-of-Body Image” • Self-objectification – viewing the female body as a sex object • Looking through the eyes of the “male gaze” • Impression - body is a project needed to be worked on to impress others • trouble imagining identity/sexuality truly your own • Negative behavioral effects – low self-esteem, depression, eating disorders • In the US alone, nearly 10 million women suffer from anorexia and bulimia • problematic also for men who can’t achieve body image naturally as well

20. Male Privilege http://confederacyofspinsters.com/

21. Male Privilege Text In Question • When you hear the term feminism, what do you associate with that word? http://predatorhaven.blogspot.com/2011/06/sexism-on-tv-bachmann.html

22. bell hooks “A Movement to End Sexist Oppression” -can’t arrive on an agreed upon definition of feminism - “equality” means different things to every person depending on their standpoint -women and men are hesitant to advocate feminism because they are uncertain of the meaning of the term Feminism: a struggle to end sexist oppression

23. Definition • Male Privilege- The advantage male-bodied people have in this societybecause of sexism. Often this term refers to more subtle forms of privilegethan simply higher pay, more voice in politics/business, and other rightstraditionally enjoyed by men.

24. Example of Male Privilege • For instance, when males dominateconversations in classrooms, boardrooms, or in general. • This is a form of male privilege, because they are given more power than females.

27. http://www.superscholar.org/the-gender-gap-in-higher-education/ (2011)

28. “Masculinity as Homophobia” • Male’s challenged on their masculinity • Homophobia because of fear • Violence is single most evident marker of manhood • Masculinity seen as power over others

29. Violence

30. Violence Text In Question • Name a celebrity who has been involved in a sexual assault case?

31. “Violence Against Women is a Man’s Issue”- Katz • Is violence against women, a women’s issue? • Underlying social factors • Male-peer culture • Power through history • Making a change • Social norms theory- we misperceive the extent of others attitudes and behaviors • Fight the ‘uphill battle’ together

32. Tough Guise • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3LhqzuCPtQ&feature=relmfu

33. Victims of Sexual Assault Are… • 3 times more likely to suffer from depression. • 6 times more likely to suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder. • 13 times more likely to abuse alcohol. • 26 times more likely to abuse drugs. • 4 times more likely to contemplate suicide. • 54% of rapes/sexual assaults are not reported to the police, according to a statistical average of the past 5 years. • Those rapists, of course, never spend a day in prison. • Factoring in unreported rapes, only about 3% of rapists ever serve a day in jail.

35. women aged 20-24 are at the highest risk for non-fatal partner abuse • women of all races are equally vulnerable to violence by an intimate partner • nearly ¾ Americans know someone who has been a victim of domestic violence • Forty percent of girls age 14 to 17 report knowing someone their age who has been hit or beaten by a boyfriend

36. BREAK!!! Please be prompt with your Connelly trip 

37. Gender Privilege Activity http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/06/the-8th-grade-feminist_n_1258670.html Move-in & Move-out

38. Corner Questions • Have you or anyone you know ever felt insecure about your body image because of societal pressure? • Has male privilege ever helped or hindered your or anyone that you know’s accomplishments or actions? • Have you or anyone that you know ever been a part of or a victim to violence?

39. What Now?