WDW101Y1 Lecture Notes - Vladimir Putin, Hegemonic Masculinity, Heterosexuality
19 Oct 2012
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Gender is seen more fluid compared to sex. It changes and involves over time and change even depending on different situations. The relation between sex and gender is pretty evident. And sex causes gender; the relation is seen as causal. You don"t choose your sex but you can choose to some extent your level of femininity and masculinity. Interpret the differences as innate and natural and essential. Gender is socially constructed (something we choose, not necessarily assigned by others) Gender is very much depending on social and cultural influence on your environment. What considered masculine or feminine depend on where you live. Related to the process of the social construction. Certain characteristics that do play certain limit on the gender. Both biological and sociological factors interact and influence each other. Biological constraints are important but not restrained. Gender is an individual attribute but gender is also a set of relation structures ( a basic fat of how society are organized.
