• When Society plays a role in what we think about ourselves. In gender, society provideds rules that police us and encourage us to stay in our gender roles

• What society tells us what we are supposed to be in the structure 

• Who you are is natural and biological, meaning that it does not change
• The idea that nothing changes through time, history or place, in the subject of gender 

Expectations of performance associated with gender differences defined by psychological and cultural meanings 

Expectant behavior/performance for a gender

Your personal view can only be seen from your personal experience, you cannot understand other people's standpoint unless you share the same standpoint

Ex: when you are not associating with your family religion's secretly, you have to know to closet your feelings, and also know to play the role if you were to have the faith of the specific religion your family practices

behavorial categorization according to gender will be implicity invoked in social contexts

Ex: Men should be masculine

Female should be feminine

To stray from the norms of your gender role 

Alternate to normal expectations

Masculinity & FEmininity lie on  a range

M<--------------------------->F

Am I presenting myself appropriately ?

comparator --> output--> social situation change --> Input -----------> 

society gives symbols (race, religion,gender)

this guides how we treat others also

can be passed arounf like a game of "hot potato" 

represents a penetrates masculinity in which to "be penetrated is to be abdicate power" 

Symbolizes a masculinity devoid of power

the concept of people successfully policing their gender and "passing" in the eyes of the rest of society. 

Ex: Agnes the transsexual acknowledges her sex  yet decides to police herself as a female, learning how to behave in a femine manner. If she does it correctly she will "pass"

Sex refers to either genetic or morphological characeristics

Gender refers to social status and identity. Gender is constituted through deployment of gendered rhetoric, symbols and images

the dominanting characteristics in an interaction

the dominating identity in an ineraction , such as : age, background, gender, educational level, or skill level

trained by society to accept things such as 

-reproduction

-institutions such as religion

a matrix of overlapping charactersitics that affect one another in different degrees

Ex: Im a white, female, middle class, able bodied

Normative/other

Slave has own set of cultures but must be aware of the master's cultre. Meanwhile, master has no desire to know about slaves culture

1.7% of all people are born intersex

Most doctors deem this as "not natural", which keeps ebverything simple and keeps the confusion to the minimum 

As a society , we seek to put constraints on intersexuals to categorize them in a way we can understand

feminist scholar approach

a way that women and minorities are put at a disadvantage by the media. Through this, the media portrays them in narrow, demeaning, trivializing, or distorted ways that provide a narrow definition of beauty.

The problem that has no name - a sickness in which women roles are suffiecent enough for them to adequately enjoy life.

Women are just a wife and a mother, nothing more

hetero, 2.5 kids, homemaker/breadwinner, white collar, dog 

this ties with the American Dream

promoting equality for women 

1869 Susan B Anthony & Elizabeth Cady Stanton found the National Suffrage Association 

1960 FDA approved Birth control pills

1964 Civil Rights Act - women get the right to vote

1973 - Roe V Wade

2009 - Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Restoration Act

Mothers make lesss than men and childless women

This is due to : there is not paid maternity leave in the US, women lose seniority priviliages , employers have a mindset that women innately prioritixe their childeren above work in any circumstance

1869 - Susan B Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton found the National Women's Suffarage Association 

1960 - FDA approved Birth control pills

1964 - Civil rights act - women get the right to vote 

1973 - Roe V Wade

Human Rights