SOSC 1350 Chapter Notes - Chapter ‘Girls Wear Pink and Boys Wear Blue’: Gender and the Social Construction of Women and “Understanding Race and Racialization” : Atavism, Social Darwinism, Racial Profiling
29 Mar 2017
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Girls wear pink and boys wear blue": gender and the social construction of women . It emerges from the concept of gender in the process of gendering. Gender" was the term adopted by second wave feminist to distinguish between the biological aspects of being female or male and the cultural expectations of femininity and masculinity. Myths arose that certain colors offered protection against evil spirits. Blue, possibly because of its association with the sky and heavenly spirits, was considered a particularly powerful color. While pink for girls was a later association, it was connected to. European legends about the birth of girls inside pink roses. Western culture creative gender roles that became a supporting role without explicit recognition outside the privatized household. It would be possible to consider women in our industrialization west without looking at it triple fall of domestic privatization: physical marginalization, and economic devaluation, and social depreciation. ".
