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Conferences ◦ 8:35 – 9:25 Arts 150 ◦ 9:35 – 10:25 Burnside 1B23◦ Attendance & participation
Contact◦ E-mail: [email protected]◦ Office hours: Mondays 10-11:30 in
Leacock 822A, or by appointment ◦ Site: www.soci270.carvajal.ca
E-mail picture and/or blurb about yourself
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A bit about my self My teaching style
◦ I’m here to help!◦ Become as involved as you want in the topic of
gender◦ Gentle Socratic method◦ The importance of your time
You PAY for my pay cheques
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1. Should gender matter in our society?2. Can we raise gender-neutral children?
“We don’t believe in pressuring the children. When the time is right, they’ll choose the appropriate gender?”
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Our culture distinguishes our identity on the basis of sex from the moment of birth, not our nature
Ways to retard gender education: ◦ Alternate between spouses traditional
female/male roles around the house◦ Introduce kids to both male and female
experiences (e.g. male/female toys)◦ Monitor and censor TV and books◦ Treat sex as merely a physical trait◦ Focus on other sources of diversity
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Mothering capacities and desire to mother built into women (object-relational experiences):◦ Girls have a longer attachment with their mothers past
their first 2-3 years◦ Stronger mother-daughter identification◦ Girls maintain a more affective connection with familial
objects and others past their adolescence Femininity develops as a sense of connection
and relationship; masculinity as its rejection Nurturing, empathy and parenting is curtailed
in boys, while it is emphasized on women While these characteristics are not innate, we
develop them so early and so “naturally” that they are unavoidable
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Gender as a belief that one’s sex at birth determines who we are, what we like, how we behave, etc.
Gender differences may be strong today and important in analyzing our social reality ◦ BUT: Is it because men and women are
naturally or inevitably different?◦ Or because we believe in gender, we care
about it and thus reinforce the binary
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Sex is something we more often take for granted, but:◦ Determining someone’s sex at birth by
observing physical traits is sometimes impossible
◦ Sex-assingment may also be an arbitrary imposition Based on the belief of a bipolar system of sex
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