SOCC38H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter Becoming a Gendered Body: Practices of Preschools: Hidden Curriculum, Signify, Erving Goffman
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Some of these differences, particularly differences in motor skills seen in early childhood. Differences may be consequential: use bodies to construct our means of living, to take care of each other, to pleasure each other. Disciplined body creates a context for social relations. Gendered bodies create particular contexts for social relations as they signal, manage, and negotiate information about power and status. Gender relations depend on successful gender presentation, monitoring, and interpretation of bodies: microsociological work suggests gender is something done. Suggest that managed, adorned, fashioned, properly comported and moving bodies establish gender and gender relations: becomes deeply part of whom we are physically and psychologically. Gender becomes embedded in body postures, musculature, and tensions in our bodies: masculine gender partly a feel to one"s body and that bodies are often a source of power for men. Opposite purpose for women, sources of anxiety and tentativeness.
