Gender Studies

Question 1

Nayak

Answer 1

Body capital! Because of playing breadwinner roles and going out to work, men are able to opt out of domestic chores.

Question 2

Mac an Ghaill

Answer 2

Crisis of masculinity! Men aren’t sure how to behave.

Question 3

Joyce Canaan

Answer 3

Traditional form of masculinity is still alive and well for working class men. It’s focused upon fighting, drinking and male sexuality.

Question 4

Statham

Answer 4

By the age of 5 a clear sense of gender identity is developed.

Question 5

Chodorow

Answer 5

Children are mothered differently, depending on their gender.

Question 6

Oakley

Answer 6

Looks at what goes on in the family between parents and children and questions wether the process is key to the development of gender identity.

Question 7

McRobbie

Answer 7

Looked at girls magazine ‘Jackie’ and said that girls identities were shaped around romance, fashion and beauty.

Question 8

Gauntlet

Answer 8

Magazines gives advice on how to be attractive according to gender. Telling us what to wear etc.

Question 9

Martin & Ruble

Answer 9

‘Gender detectives’! Children are constantly searching for clues of who should and shouldn’t engage in certain behaviours.

Question 10

Burdsey

Answer 10

In order to become ‘one of the lads’, Asian male footballers engage in certain activities which aren’t acceptable within their culture.

Question 11

Parsons

Answer 11

Males and females are biologically different, therefore suited to doing different subjects at school.

Question 12

Stanworth

Answer 12

Looked at how boys are girls are treated differently in lessons.

Question 13

Elliot

Answer 13

Religious texts are patriarchal.

Question 14

Woodhead

Answer 14

The Muslim practice of wearing a veil is complex.

Question 15

Beechey

Answer 15

Women are the ‘reserve army of labour’.

Question 16

Sherry Ortner

Answer 16

In every culture in the world women are treated as subordinate to men.