SOC 100A Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Feminist Theory, Bisexuality, Heterosexuality
31 Dec 2018
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Media as a social institution: the complex role it plays in constructing/challenging. Patriarchy and its impact on men and women; understanding feminism and gender as cultural flashpoints. Feminist theory: social/cultural paradigms of understanding gender inequality and gendered social institutions/practices. The social construction of sex, gender and sexuality within a hierarchy (lgbtiq a) Natural" roles = public/domestic spheres, political/economic imbalance, the gender pay gap. Sex refers to the biologically differentiated status of male and female. It includes physiological differences between men and women: anatomy, genitals, genes and hormones. Gender is not as a fixed biological category but a socially created construct of masculine and feminine traits. Gender involves the social or cultural and psychological aspects linked to males and females through particular social contexts. Thus, what a given society defines as masculine or feminine is a component of gender as a cultural performance.
