KINE 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12-21: Focus On The Family, Dystopia, Medicalization

• School: York University
• Department: Kinesiology & Health Science
• Course: KINE 1000
• Professor: Hernan Humana

Document Summary

There are gender stereotypes hidden in the scientific language of biology: textbooks say male and female reproductive systems have valuable substances (ex; egg and sperm) Females systems viewed as productive meaning menstruation is a failure (debris of uterine lining) Manturation of sperm is praised for producing millions of sperm a day. Female has 400 germ cells when she is born that will reach full maternity, male has hundreds of millions producing everyday: to avoid negative, scientists could describe male and female processes as homologous. Males face problems of degeneration: texts celebrate sperm production b/c it is continuous from puberty to death, but female as inferior b/c it is finished at birth (female seen as unproductive) Female egg count decreases as she ages. For every baby, women waste 200 hundred eggs, but for every baby man produces, he wastes one trillion sperm. Egg viewed as feminine and sperm as masculine: diction used to describe processes is also stereotypes.