Gender and Feminism
Sex - ✔✔✔biological constitution as female or male
gender - ✔✔✔our cultural programming as feminine or masculine.
varies within cultures
"On ne nait pas femme, on le devient"
Simone De Bouvet - ✔✔✔One is not born a woman one becomes one
Homophobia: - ✔✔✔Fear of, aversion to, or discrimination against, homosexuals
Hetrosexalist - ✔✔✔presumption that everyone is heterosexual, and naturally superior
Nature vs Nurture - ✔✔✔extent to which particular aspects of behavior are a product of either
inherited (i.e. genetic) or acquired (i.e. learned) characteristics.
Nature - ✔✔✔Differences btw men and women are:
Innate
Biological, physiological
Fairly fixed
Nurture - ✔✔✔Differences btw men and women are:
Learned
, Psychological, social, cultural
Due largely to environment
Changeable
Gender roles Social learning theory: - ✔✔✔social interaction.
reinforcement or imitation and modeling.
one boys and girls preferred dolls over cars 57.2% of girls choose the doll along with 56.4% of boys. By
the age of two more boys favoured the car. 52.7% of girls and 47.9% of boys favoured the doll. The male
preference for cars over dolls is evident as he grows older. This indicated that socialisation results in the
male shunning of female toys not inborn factors. (Curtis 2014)
Gender roles Cognitive development theory - ✔✔✔Environment
socialisation
Parental infulence
structure vs agency
Gender roles Feminist approaches: - ✔✔✔Gender : socially constructed role
Focus on power differences and inequality.
rise of gender neutral parenting
Types of feminism Egalitarian - ✔✔✔Promotes equality through equal rights
freedom from oppressive gender roles
Sex - ✔✔✔biological constitution as female or male
gender - ✔✔✔our cultural programming as feminine or masculine.
varies within cultures
"On ne nait pas femme, on le devient"
Simone De Bouvet - ✔✔✔One is not born a woman one becomes one
Homophobia: - ✔✔✔Fear of, aversion to, or discrimination against, homosexuals
Hetrosexalist - ✔✔✔presumption that everyone is heterosexual, and naturally superior
Nature vs Nurture - ✔✔✔extent to which particular aspects of behavior are a product of either
inherited (i.e. genetic) or acquired (i.e. learned) characteristics.
Nature - ✔✔✔Differences btw men and women are:
Innate
Biological, physiological
Fairly fixed
Nurture - ✔✔✔Differences btw men and women are:
Learned
, Psychological, social, cultural
Due largely to environment
Changeable
Gender roles Social learning theory: - ✔✔✔social interaction.
reinforcement or imitation and modeling.
one boys and girls preferred dolls over cars 57.2% of girls choose the doll along with 56.4% of boys. By
the age of two more boys favoured the car. 52.7% of girls and 47.9% of boys favoured the doll. The male
preference for cars over dolls is evident as he grows older. This indicated that socialisation results in the
male shunning of female toys not inborn factors. (Curtis 2014)
Gender roles Cognitive development theory - ✔✔✔Environment
socialisation
Parental infulence
structure vs agency
Gender roles Feminist approaches: - ✔✔✔Gender : socially constructed role
Focus on power differences and inequality.
rise of gender neutral parenting
Types of feminism Egalitarian - ✔✔✔Promotes equality through equal rights
freedom from oppressive gender roles
