Constructing Gender in Society Flashcards
Issues in defining gender:
Woman are sometimes seen as ______
Other of a masculine norm
Issues in defining gender:
Diversity _____
Within the category of woman/man and gender interfaces with other aspects of identity e.g gender and sexual orientation
Issues in defining gender:
Who _____?
Who counts as woman or man?
Issues in defining gender:
Why ____?
Why do ‘we’ think there are only two categories? (Butler)
“When defining gender, why do ‘we’ think there are only two categories?” Who said this?
Butler
The cult of hysteria was prominent around this period
c19th
Sum up the cult of hysteria
A lot of diseases aren’t actually diseases but a symptoms of a “disease of the womb”
“The man who ____ sick women _____” (1888)
The man who does not know sick women does not know women
According to psychoanalytic theory, man is _____
The model of personhood (women are hysterical)
According to psychoanalytic theory biology is not destiny….
Interpretation of the body matters (eg phallic stage, penis envy)
Modern research gives us scope for understanding…
Gender as culturally produced
Gender in research _____
Is often ignored/treated as a token topic (against an implicitly masculine norm)
To say “men are like this and women are like that”..
Assumes a natural referent (m/f bodies) corresponds with a universalised set of gender characteristics
Researching gender in terms of difference…
Produces a particular kind of knowledge about gender that frames men / masculinity as better
Critiques of gender research:
_____ findings
Inconsistent findings
