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Gender And Sexual Identity Flashcards

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What are OAKLEY’S key concepts?

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Manipulation
Canalisation
Domestic Activities
Verbal Appellations

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What does OAKLEY believe?

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That primary socialisation is key to developing gender identity within the family.

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What is MANIPULATION (Oakley)?

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Encouraging and discouraging certain behaviours regarding gender.

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What is CANALISATION (Oakley)?

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Directing toy, clothes and play choices

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What is VERBAL APPELLATIONS (Oakley)?

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Parents using stereotypical characteristics / descriptions

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What is DOMESTIC ACTIVITIES (Oakley)?

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Expectations around responsibilities

Daughters should be house wives etc.

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What are MCROBBIE’S key concepts?

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“Cult of femininity” and “bedroom culture”

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What does MCROBBIE suggest?

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That subcultures are MALE DOMINATED, hence why there isn’t any research into girls

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Who did MCROBBIE study?

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46 working class girls ages 14-16.

Who had a restricted future

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What is NAKUAMARA’S key concept?

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“Forum for support”

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What did NAKUAMARA find?

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That women are significantly stereotyped in the media and that they use the media as a way of seeking help when they face discrimination.

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What does BILLINGTON argue?

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That the media presents genders in different ways.
Males are dominant.
Femininity is subordinate

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What are BILLINGTON’S key concepts?

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Femininity is subordinate

Masculinity is dominant

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What are MITSOS and BROWN’s key concepts?

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“Culture of Masculinity”

“Anti-learning culture”

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What do MITSOS and BROWN suggest?

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Suggest that teachers label boys as disruptive .

Anti learning culture is reinforced by socialising students into gender roles.

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What is SKELTON’S key concept?

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“Hidden curriculum”

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What does SKELTON say about the “hidden curriculum”

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That it is responsible for students’ subject choices towards their gender.

Boys : PE, Maths
Girls : Photography, Art

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What does MAC an GHAIL study?

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Working class boys in the inner city in the Midlands and their values.

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What does WILLIS study explain?

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How the 12 working class boys he studied didn’t value education and looked into how they behaved.

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What is WILLIS’s key concept?

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Anti school subculture

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What is COLLEY’s study about?

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That we are socialised into masculine or feminine identity. There are tasks within the subject that make us choose certain subjects.

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What is COLLEY’s key concept?

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“Perception of Gender Roles”

“Subject preferences”

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What is KELLY’s study about?

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How science is packaged as a boys subject. Text books include images such as footballs and cars.

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What is a CRITICISM of KELLY’s research?

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STEM exists - there is equality and diversity training.

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What is ADKINS’s study about?

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How the labour market had a gendered character and that there were expectations within a theme park to do certain roles?

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What does ADKINS concept of HORIZONTAL SEGREGATION mean?

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The expectations to do different jobs

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What does ADKINS concept of VERTICAL SEGREGATION mean?

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Men and women are expected to do the same jobs but men have higher status

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What did ADKINS find?

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That female employers were subjected to facing sexual harassment.

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What did MCCORMACK look into?

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6th form colleges and the attitudes to sexuality.

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What did MCCORMACK find?

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It was a more positive and accepting environment.

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What does WEEKS discuss?

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How it’s not the norm to be gay or lesbian.

It’s something you need to announce when talking about yourself.

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What is RICH’s key concept?

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Compulsory Heterosexuality

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What does RICH discuss?

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Women’s sexuality is oppressed by men’s.

Believe that the majority of women are not inheritely heterosexual.

Lesbian identity is written out of existence.

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What is PLUMMER’s key concept? And what does it mean?

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“Homosexual career”

Men accepting the label of homosexual and will seek to join a subculture where stereotypical homosexual characteristics become the norm

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What does PLUMMER see homosexuality as?

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A process.

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