Essays on Construction Of Gender

The social construction of gender is a prevailing concern among many social theorists and modern culture, particularly as society becomes more aware of the often arbitrary delineations between what is ‘male’ or ‘female’ about things like behavior, dress and attitude. Aaron Devor’s “Gender Role Behaviors and Attitudes” explicitly explores these issues of the cultural construct of gender, particularly the ways in which male and female behaviors are defined and categorized. This becomes especially important in the context of Mariah Burton Nelson’s “I Won, I’m Sorry,” which looks at these stratified gender behaviors in the context of ...

Nowadays a lot of problematic issues and controversies about people’s social, religious, racial and gender identity have been discussed. Equality of human rights, recognition of basic moral and ethical principles, tolerance and respect towards people with different background are the main conditions of real freedom and democracy. Although, people have started realizing new progressive ideals and there has been a significant decrease in the race discrimination rates, the problem of transgender identity still remains unsolved and public offense or misunderstandings still very frequently occur in different mass media sources. Many people wonder, why one should change his or ...

Social construction of gender refers to the ways in which the society influences us on the meaning of a woman or man. The society determines the life of each and every person in the society is subject to the impact of social construction due to the normal belief that the nature and levels of knowledge while at the same time knowledge is constructed by the individuals living in that society. The professions like being a doctor, manager or engineers, are socially constructed to be careers for men due to the dominance of the male in the society. The careers like nursing, ...

Disparities are related to religion, ability, culture and other variables. Disparities related to gender are the most spectacular. When a boy is born, celebrations are intense. For a baby girl, celebrations are conducted as a formality. This introduces gender-based practices. For instance, black clothes are bought for boys and pink clothes for the girls. Gender is communally constructed through our daily practices. The parents play a great role in determining the primary socialization of a child. They teach their children about the concept male and female. This influences the perception of children towards gender roles. The differential socialization is made clear in toys ...

Following numerous challenges that were being encountered by member of the black community, it was evident through the approach that was taken in reference to psychiatric analysis that black people were frequently diagnosed with schizophrenia. This act was seen as a move by the American government to discriminate racially against members of the black community. The diagnosis made on black people went unchallenged until question started being raised on this issue. In order to challenge this diagnosis and theory that black people were more likely to be diagnosed with schizophrenia, the book the Protest Psychosis was authored to challenge this ...

When gender and race are combined in the life of a black woman, they result to racism, objectification, and sexism from medical professionals. A combination of these factors seems negatively to affect black women. In a critical response to Rebecca Skloot’s book “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” this essay presents the case for women and gender for black women.

Science is used to construct both gender, sex and race

The case of Henrietta is introduced when she dies of cervical cancer in hospital. At 31, Henrietta was poor and could not afford to undergo the required procedure to heal her. However, the irony of her story is that her ...

“Doing Gender” and “Compulsive Heterosexuality: Masculinity and Dominance” are two literary texts that explore issues related to gender and sex. The two articles particularly focus on the implications of gender and sex on women. “Doing Gender” is authored by Candace West and Don. Zimmerman while “Compulsive Heterosexuality: Masculinity and Dominance” appears as the fourth chapter in the book “Dude, You’re a Fag: Masculinity and Sexuality in High School written by C.J Pascoe. Although the two texts explore issues related to sex and gender, their content and subject matter differ significantly. The two texts or articles are guided by ...

The 1999 film Boys Don't Cry, directed by Kimberly Peirce, tells the story of transgendered man Brandon Teena (Hilary Swank, in an Oscar-winning performance), who was born Teena Brandon, a woman. In his attempts to ingratiate himself with his male friends and pursue a relationship with a girl named Lana (Chloe Sevigny), his anatomical differences are discovered, and he is raped and murdered by those same male friends. The film examines the concepts of homosexuality, transgender issues, and identity in a way that few major studio films typically do. However, Boys Don't Cry presents a remarkably gender-binary worldview for its subject matter, as Brandon ( ...

The recent years have seen the advent of many crusaders of sexuality and gender related issues, with many scholars basing most of their work on feminism. This is because of the modern realization that the roles that each and everyone plays in the society that we live have been ‘constructed’ through our interaction with others and society at large. 21st century scholars realize that the world is moving away from the traditional norms, and is moving towards a more inclusive setting where everyone realizes the roles played by the next individual. This paper seeks to explore the works of ...

The concept of gender and how gender roles are defined and constructed, in a way fit into the bigger nature versus nurture debate. Over the years, research as well as numerous inquiries, have been launched in an attempt to establish whether or not gender and accompanying gender roles are usually predetermined by an individual’s genes or by society’s construction of gender. The debate, takes on a different dimension when one considers that the main physical difference actually comes about due to biology, raising questions over exactly where the role played by biology or genetics towards the concept of gender ...