PERLS104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 99: Operating Expense, Edmonton Oilers, Northlands Coliseum

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Physical Education, Recreation and Leisure Studies
• Course: PERLS104
• Professor: Jay Scherer

Document Summary

A set of interrelated ideas about masculinity and femininity: socially and historically constructed set of power relations between men and women. Dominant gender ideology consists of prevailing common sense beliefs about male/femaleness: emerge as people struggle over the meaning and organization of social life. Gender ideology varies from time to time and place to place: social construction: as opposed to being si(cid:373)ply a(cid:374)(cid:272)hored i(cid:374) a supposedly (cid:858)(cid:374)atural(cid:859) (cid:271)iologi(cid:272)al differe(cid:374)(cid:272)e between men and women. Gender emphasizes socially constructed cultural expectations about behavior, attitudes, appearances, and bodies. Transsexual people who feel their gender and sex do not correspond (male sex feel urges of female gender, etc. : many may pursue hormone therapy and sex reassignment surgery. Transgendered individuals who do not identify specifically with masculinity or femininity (fluidity of gender) Heteronormativity privileging of heterosexuality in social institutions: major social changes: human rights victories of 1980s and 2005. Homophobia: fear of homosexuals: product of heteronormative culture.