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Topic:  Anthropology - Gender Issue


 

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Type of paper: Essay
Subject area: Religion and Theology
Academic level: College
Style: MLA
Size: 27.0 kB
Word count:
1155 words/5 pages
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Author: Migdalia Carter
Date submitted: 2008-11-21 18:55:13
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Tags: political, children, gender, development, career, path, anthropology, issue, Marx, York, Children, Rousseau, Ohlott, Thomson Delmar Learning, Teaching Content Literacy
The issues on gender became one of the crucial topics in various
disciplines , such as in sociology and anthropology . Gender is a
discourse that we can see not only on the academic community but also a
discourse we experience in our mundane activities each day . By merely
walking along busy streets one can observe social realities concerning
gender such as , sexy women on the cover page of a men 's magazine ,
prostitution , sexual abuse and many others . Even the simple way of
observing people at the park , such as who usually accompanies children ?
What color of dress parents assign to a baby girl or a baby boy ? For
example , I would remember one instance where my friends who expect to
have a baby boy , prefer to buy blue-colored things since they believe it
is ``more appropriate ' for their baby 's gender . By gender norms , I
would understand it as the expected behavior for each sex (male /female . It is usually in these norms that one can find if there are
unequal treatment between men and women in society . People sometimes do
not find it disturbing that in some societies , the preference for a boy
rather than a girl for a child is a kind of mentality brought by
cultural expectations and practices . This is taken for granted but when
one looks at it , the very problem lies on how society creates norms that
would favor one sex over another .
Through history , some societies favor the idea that men have always been
the strong , the aggressive and the productive . But who will claim that
these traits are biologically innate to the male ? Gender roles are not
biological , rather these are expectations given by society . Male and
female have distinct physiological characteristics (such as difference
in the reproductive system , however , defining what it means ``to be
male or to be female ' and on how will the sexes interact on given
social settings is shaped by society .
If a woman carries the burden of rearing her children , it is not nature
rather it is society that dictates this role . Martin for instance ,
looked at the second rate position of women , at the discourse in biology
such as the value of the egg and the sperm cells . Interestingly , Martin
portrayed how the use of language in discussing the process of
fertilization depicts the question of ``power ' Should the sperm as it
is usually described as active , penetrates the egg or should the egg as
it is usually described as passive , engulfs the sperm ? Language is so
powerful that it transmits meanings and represents norms . In this case
gender norms are depicted in the way science used language . Moreover , in
continuously using sexist language we are creating a sexist culture .
Part of the things that gender norms teach us is on the roles or tasks
that we should do as a female or a male . The burden of child rearing for
example was left to the mothers as if no other member of society is...

 

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