MDSA01H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Middle-Earth Animals, Simpson Family, Stra
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Mark gender norms important way we express who we are in society. A way we understand the cultural roles surrounding what it means to be masculine and feminine. Feminism explores the diverse ways men and women are socially empowered or disempowered. Movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression. Feminism reveal and eradicate socially ingrained systems of sexism that harm all individuals in some way deconstruct sexist oppression present in our everyday norms and experiences. Factors that contribute to the creation of a sexist social system. Sex innate, biological differentiation between men and women anatomy , reproduction, hormones biological facts: only women can give birth to children categories: male + female traits: chromosomes. Gender culturally constructed differences between men and women tastes, roles, activities gendered qualities: women are more nurturing and mothering categories: masculine + feminine traits: aggressiveness. Trouble arises confuse gendered qualities with sexual ones. Understanding culturally constructed norms as innate biological traits.
