Unit 4 Gender & Youth Flashcards
1
Q
What kinds of socializing agents do we encounter in our lives?
A
- Our family or parents
- The State (birth certificate)
- Health care system (looks at prenatal gender)
- Companies (gender specific marketing and products)
- Media
- Teachers, daycares, education systems
- Both interactional and institutional
1
Q
Resistance
A
- Some resistance present but not always common
- Might be more okay for girls to look into more masculine things than boys having interest in more feminine stuff
2
Q
Sexuality and gender
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- When kids “deviate” from gender roles, it is seen as a potential sign of homosexuality or trans identity
- Especially associated with boys (boys who like “girly” things will be more likely viewed as potentially gay)
3
Q
How is sexuality included in this socialization?
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- Media (heteronormative representations)
- In families or schools (heteronormative assumptions, birthday candles in NA culture)
- Clothing/marketing (mr. steal your girl print, styling and cuts varying by gender, swimsuits)
- Education (how to properly sit like a lady)
- Policy vs socialization (policy changing on topless women at beach but socialization keeps much change from happening)
- Can also be influenced by intersectionality (an added layer of nuance)
4
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Gender Identity
A
- Sex, gender, cis and transgender, intersex
- Emphasis on biology (DNA, genitals, chromosomes, etc.) switching to more of an opening to include a greater variety of gender identity
- Biological, psychology and sociocultural
- Gender policing from institutions and individuals who will notice when someone is not conforming and police them (in)formally into doing otherwise (schools, change rooms in pools, interactions, etc.)
- Third and more genders (Two Spirit)
5
Q
Raising Gender Creative?
A
- Baby Grey
- Being who they want, without expectations
- Risk mitigation to avoid risk of gendering a baby
- Filtering stigma and dealing w other parents until Baby Grey is old enough to do so
- Every parent learns & teaches smth different, there is no universal way to parent, hence why their parenting choice is not especially worse than choosing binary gendering
6
Q
How can there be gender-free/creative children in such a gender-heavy world?
A
- Gender is a schema & social
- Can depend on community (open community vs more traditional or conservative)
- The world has an expectation for a gender choice to be made and questions of gender may come up earlier, which is complicated
- Critics often focus more on gendering or lack thereof from the parents rather than their parenting roles as a whole
