Gender Identities: -about how you experience your own gender, despite what society expects -it is not about someone’s anatomy, it is about who they know them self
Examples of GENDER IDENTITIES
Common Gender Identities: MALE FEMALE
TRANSGENDER - Someone may be born with a vagina but know themselves to be male or vice versa.
AGENDER -you don’t identify any gender or also known as the “lack of gender”
GENDERQUEER -if their gender identity is neither male nor female, is between or beyond gender or is some combination of genders
PANGENDER -refers to a person whose gender identity that is not limited to one gender and may encompass all genders at once
HOW DID GENDER ROLES EMERGE?
GENDER ROLES -behaviors men and women exhibit in the private and public realm -in society means how we’re expected to act, speak, dress, groom, and conduct ourselves based upon our assigned sex
John Money - he was the first one who coined or defined the gender role in 1955 Gender Roles are evolved and changeable. -influenced by the media, family, environment and society.
GENDER STRUCTURE -provides a conceptual framework for understanding the way gender is reproduced through cultural and material process taking place at individual, interactional and macro dimensions
GENDER AND SOCIALIZATION -the process of learning the social expectations and attitudes associated with one’s sex -the tendency for boys and girls to be socialized differently
GENDER SOCIALIZATION -the process of teaching individuals how to behave according to gender roles -involves the teaching of gender stereotypes GENDER STEREOTYPES- certain behaviors and attitudes that are considered characteristics of boys or girls
GENDER AND SOCIAL CHANGE
SOCIAL CHANGE -changes in human interactions and relationships that transform cultural and social institutions
Examples of Social Change: Civil Rights Women’s Rights LGBTQ Rights