Gender and Sexual Identities Flashcards
Traditional Gender Identities:
PARSONS
Women= expressive roles
Males= instrumental roles
Based on biological functions
Traditional Gender Identities:
OAKLEY
Gender socialisation in the home:
Canalisation, domestic activities, verbal appellations, Manipulation
Traditional Gender Identities:
MCROBBIE
- Cult of femininity
-Bedroom culture
Traditional Gender Identities:
NAKUMURA
-Women use internet as room for forum support
- Shares experiences of discrimination
-Everyday sexism project Laura bates
Traditional Gender Identities:
BILLINGTON
Media presents masculinity as dominant and women as subordinate
Traditional Gender Identities:
FERGUSON
- Content analysis
Womens magazines - Cult of femininity
- Women should care for appearance and marriage
Traditional Gender Identities:
MITOSIS AND BROWNE
- Teachers less harsh boys
- Does them disservice
Traditional Gender Identities:
WILLIS
- w/c men adopt anti-school behaviour
-Laddish form of masculinity
Traditional Gender Identities:
SKELETON
- Hidden curriculum reinforces gender socialisation
-Attitudes of teachers and male/ female subjects
Traditional Gender Identities:
KELLY
– Science packaged as a boys subject even in textbooks
-Dominate classrooms
Traditional Gender Identities:
COLLEY
- Gendered subjects- learning environment
Traditional Gender Identities:
MAC AN GHAIL
- W/c males - unemployment follows in fathers footsteps
Crisis of masculinity due to de industrialisation
Traditional Gender Identities:
ADKINS
- Theme parks and pubs
-Sexual harassment horizontal and vertical segregation
Changing Identities:
CONNELL
Different forms of masculinity
- Hegemonic
- Complicit
- Marginalised
- Subordinate
Changing Identities:
MORT
- New Man
Feminised version of masculinity
Changing Identities:
NIXON
-Levi’s advert
-New man emerged
Changing Identities:
JACKSON
- Assertive femininity
-90s Saw emergence of Ladettes
-Loud, smoking, binge drinking and anti school culture
Changing Identities:
BLACKMAN
- New wave girls
- Academically able
- Feminist girls wore more masculine forms of clothing eg baggy clothes
Changing Identities:
SHARPE
Compared w/c girls in London schools in 1970s and then 1990s
- Girls more confident assertive and ambitious and committed to gender equality
Sexual Identities:
MCCORMACK
- Found pro gay attitudes of 6th form students
-Supported gay rights
Sexual Identities:
WEEKS
Not many would say “I am heterosexual” about identity
- “I am gay/lesbian” states belonging dominant sexual codes
Sexual Identities:
PLUMMER
- Homosexuality as a process
- Men who accept the label will seek and join other subcultures who see it as a norm
Sexual Identities:
MAC AN GHAIL
- Hetrosexual boys focus on the three Fs
- Football, Fucking and Fighting to come across more masculine and hide sexuality
Sexual Identities:
MCINTOSH
- Western culture once male accepted label
-Reflected through behaviour
