KIN 161 Lecture Notes - Identity Management, Softcore Pornography, Heterosexuality
Document Summary
Kin 161 lecture gender, sexuality and sport. Sex biological determination of male or female. Gender who you choose to be and act; how you identify. Sexuality your preferences; attraction to others. Hegemony- is the process through which ideologies become materialized through the everyday experiences of people: how ideologies are internalized, struggled over, negotiated, opposed, and lived out (beal, 253). Gender has 5 key features: gender is not natural but is socially constructed and varies across time and place, gender is a binary categorization (man/woman) Binary=opposite ends; one or the other: gender is relational. Relational=we envision what a male is like by saying it"s the opposite of female: gender is based on structural relations of inequality. Opposite, but not equal; based on power (more men than women); characteristics of masculinity and femininity are not equal: gender is a linking concept. Linking=nothing is individual or separate, everything (race, ethnicity, etc) combines to form a person.
