Kinesiology 2250A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Gender Binary, Domestic Violence Against Men, Dance Academy

• School: Western University
• Department: Kinesiology
• Course: Kinesiology 2250A/B
• Professor: Michael Heine

Document Summary

Sports and gender constructions of femininity: uses biological sex as the basis for these judgments. Biological sex: refers to the biological differences between males and females. Gender: historically specific and socially constructed definitions of what constitutes masculinity and femininity = social construction. Masculinity: images, ideas and symptoms defined as belonging to the male gender. Femininity: images, ideas and symptoms defined as belonging to the female gender. These definitions change, they are an object of contestation. They are social constructions linked to gender ideologies. Gender order: power along gender lines is often asymmetrical, this gender order changes at different times and historical contexts: expresses expectations in regards to (cid:498)proper(cid:499) sports and pa participation. Sports and males go hand in hand, there are male advantages and values through sport to be doing anything more than tossing a ball(cid:499) = malestream sport. Women broke into the canadian sport scene over a period of time with several different movements.