Gender studies

One of the things I thought about in the Disabilities Study and now think about that can really apply throughout all of the different studies is representation. When writing about Gender Studies with Into the Beautiful North I sort of blamed the book falls short of a feminist viewpoint on the fact that the author was a male. Now with Disability Studies, there is a huge theme about there not being any roles or characters that have a disability in which the story does not revolve around their…

The field of gender studies is an area of interdisciplinary study that analyzes the social aspect of gender and how it relates to different subcategories of life. It explores what it entitles to be female or male; and the experiences a person may encounter due to their gender, sexuality, race, class, etc. Because gender studies analyzes the social aspect of gender, it coherently applies to the subcategory of gender in the workplace. In most fields and professions gender has an effect on the way…

International Relations (IR) is heavily focussed on women and children. However, this skewed focus of study in IR facilitates a dangerous patriarchal system that exploits men who do not fall into the hegemonic category of masculinity as well as it perpetuates gendered understandings of masculinity as powerful, violent, and strong. Therefore, it is necessary to maintain a balance in the study of gender and IR in order to allow women and femininity a proper voice in IR while maintaining a voice…

With the rise of gay liberationist movement in the post-Stonewall era, overtly ‘gay’ and ‘lesbian’ perspectives began to be put forward in the nexus of ‘new gender studies’. If ‘queer studies’ as an umbrella term has already raised an entire set of questions and issues about identity, sexuality, race, desire, and gender, ‘black queer studies’ attempts to zoom in the fraught relations among and between these often overlapping narratives of black and queer identities. Work on ‘men and…

continues to be detrimental to many members of American society. In a different study, sociologist C. J. Pascoe discusses gender inequality in her book Dude, You’re A Fag: Masculinity and Sexuality in High School. To do so, Pascoe analyzes the use of the epithet “fag” as a form of homophobia that perpetuates inequality (Pascoe 316). Her study articulates how a gendered homophobia actually proves detrimental to the movement of gender equality (Pascoe 322).…

Gender, is a social construct, not like sex, which is defined by the anatomy of the person being born. Gender is not so easily defined, although people to this day use sex and gender interchangeably, they are really distinct from one another. Gender could easily change with the intersectionality of culture, religion, and even ages. In 1975, Gender was no longer a real achievement, individuals do gender (Doing Gender). Femininity and Masculinity are the most basic ways of interpreting reactions…

Concepts The articles “Women and Education” by Michelle Webber, and “Girls and Boys Together…but Mostly Apart: Gender Arrangements in Elementary Schools” by Barrie Thorne both review gender separation arranged particularly in institutions. Michelle Webber explains, through the curriculum taught by teachers in school, forms of masculinity and femininity are portrayed according to the dominant ideals (Webber, 2010, p. 251). In other words, students are taught how to act through social…

If it had stood alone on its quantitative components and qualitative narrative (ending with a case study of Hurtado’s brother), Beyond Machismo would be compelling research that adds critical data and analysis to the lively ongoing conversations that define Masculinities Studies. Yet its rather bold visibility of Chicana feminist throughout its analysis to underpin its sociological conceptual framing signals a fresh if not unique methodological…

and fought against the new anti-discrimination bathroom bill, that gives transgenders the right to use the bathroom the person identifies with. People do not understand that there is a difference between sex and gender. Sex is the biological characteristics with which we are born.. Gender refers to learned attitude and behaviors that characterized women and men (page 159). The governor isn’t the only one who disagrees on giving transgenders equal rights, but many Americans disagree with the…

overhaul was the section introducing the “concordant masculinity” framework. I begin the section with a review of dynamic changes to masculinity through hegemonic means in rural areas, followed by how inclusive masculinity is altering notions of how gender constructions are understood. Additionally, I address some of the criticism inclusive masculinity incurs, in…