of the Middle East and South-East Asia, while growing up, some members of my extended family lived with us in one household. This extended family structure is very common in Pakistan and the surrounding areas, often times it is also follows a very gendered model of what the male and female members should be doing. Male members of the family generally handle everything outside of the house by being a provider, protector, and in some cases, a teacher to the children. As for women, they manage everything
depth of the study and what she proposes with her findings. First, she takes a stand that gender is a social term and not biological as I have always looked at it. Gender and power also are found to be related as agreed with Kimmel’s textbook, The Gendered Society. He mentions “only white people in our society have the luxury not to think about race every minute of their lives. And only men have the luxury to pretend that gender does not matter.” She is able to grasp a stand from her interviews and
narratives are showing how the systems that are supposed to aid and heal those who are ill, but are actually reinforcing the inequities. Ehrenreich’s “Welcome to Cancerland” narrative resists becoming normate, she is critical of the economics and gendering surrounding breast cancer in mainstream culture biomedicine. Ehrenreich states that “more so than in the case of any other disease, breast cancer organizations and events feed on generous flow to corporate support (45).” Ehrenreich writes that “it
Introduction Gender roles and ideals in Hinduism and Buddhism are diverse. A number of texts regarding household gender roles exist in Hindu traditions, and little to none are appear to exist in Buddhist traditions. The gendering of abstract concepts in both Hinduism and Buddhism may also occur. The cases sited indicate that male dominance is significantly more common than female dominance in ancient and Classical Hindu texts while regional variations may continue to exist. Buddhists appear to internalize
exists between institutional characteristics and the level of job satisfaction among female faculty. Ultimately, the research will suggest strategies and approaches by which issues of job satisfaction among female faculty in research and doctoral institutions of higher education can be addressed. This study is significant in that the results will provide empirical support for scholars, institutional researchers and planners, and higher education administrators who construct institutional/departmental
church; they devoted themselves to lives of prayer or theology. In, Elizabeth Eva Leach’s article, "Gendering the Semitone, Sexing the Leading Tone: Fourteenth-Century Music Theory and the Directed Progression, "Reading and Theorizing Medieval Music Theory: Interpretation and Its Contexts," and in Sarah Fuller’s article, "Concerning Gendered Discourse in Medieval Music Theory: Was the Semitone 'Gendered Feminine?” these summaries consist a contrast why the authors argument why medieval music was an
merits for viewing gender differentiation. The way in which biology or socialization affects an individual’s gender can be analyzed through sociological study. Kimmel and Holler examine both sides of this argument to analyze how individuals become gendered by different biological and social factors. First, biological determinism and differential socialization both have their own explanations for how men and women are different. For example, regarding biological determinism, the textbook states, “…many
Judith Butler questions the belief that behaviors of either sex are natural. She proposes a rather radical theory that gender is performative and that sex is constructed. When gender is being performed, it means that someone would take on a role, acting in such a way that gives society the idea of their gender and constructs part of their identity. To be performative means that we produce a series of effects.Gender is constructed and is not in any way connected ‘naturally’ to sex. Nobody is born
news this August a Fox News reporter, Cody Derespina, described the causation and consumer reaction to “Target Going Gender Neutral in Some Sections”. After receiving some complaints from customers the retailer felt the need to address the amount of gendered language in the children sections and the colors being used to categorize certain toys. For example, one mother sent a tweet to Target with a picture of a sign saying “Building Sets” and below it reading “Girls’ Building Sets”. She stated that Target
each other, as they change and develop. It is also argued that gender is politically deployed. Gender as a term itself is bound up with power relations. It influences every aspect of personal lives and is also integrated within institutions, which themselves can be gendered. Gender as a concept was previously uncontested, seen as unproblematic and was self-evident. Second Wave Feminism was the impetus for the questioning of patriarchal assumptions of dominant social theory, bringing gender relationships