WGS 200 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Sex Reassignment Surgery, Judith Lorber, Cordelia Fine
23 Jul 2016
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Tomboys resisting traditional notions of femininity; so easy to say you were a tomboy. Sissies so difficult to admit to being a sissy. This has a lot to do with the meanings associated with masculinity and femininity and the ways these are ranked in society. Society constructs and interprets perceived differences among humans and gives us. Notions of femininity and masculinity are fluid and socially constructed created by social processes that reflect the various workings of power in society. Therefore gender is culturally and historically changeable. There is nothing essential, intrinsic, or static about femininity or masculinity; rather, they are social categories that might mean different things in different societies and in different historical periods. Gender is embedded in culture and the various forms of knowledge associated with any given community. What it might mean to be feminine or masculine in one culture may be different from meanings in another.
