The author focused on the epistemological implications of straight researchers partaking in queer research. Straight researchers claiming a queer identity (“queer straight”) leads to the thinking that queer identity produces anti-normative knowledge. However, the queer straight identity fails to be critically queer, because one cannot just stop thinking straight and enforces the assumption that there is a direct relationship between identity and the knowledge one produces. There is no such direct relationship, due to the highly uncertain and constantly shifting nature of identity and because hetero- normative knowledge is due to the influence of hetero-normativity. .
Fulcher & Scott (2011) believe gender to examine the differences between men and women in relation to feeling, thinking and behaving. When focusing on gender and how it is socially constructed, this essay will first determine the distinction between gender and sex, the inequalities between genders in relation to health and employment, and finally, will consider the extent to which gender is socially or biologically constructed. Sociological thinking of gender is relatively new in the sociological realm. It was only from the 1970s that sociologists began to make a distinction between gender and sex. The women’s movement and the consequent development of feminist ideas in the 1960s and 1970s influenced the question of gender and began emphasise the importance of gender as a concept of its own.
Performative Acts and Gender Constitution: An Essay in Phenomenology and Feminist Theory by Judith Butler Judith Butler argues that gender identity is a performative achievement is constrained by social sanction and taboo. She defined performative as an act by the very fact of it happening, such as the act of promising by saying “I promise”. She explained that the body is what gender is authorized from; in other words, gender is not the starting place, it is identity being repeatedly constructed through time due to the body’s construction. That gender does not come first, instead, it is created by the performance act. Gender is forced in opposition because the existence of the agency has constructed the binary gender system as definite.
Gender is socially constructed, which doesn’t necessarily signify that females and males are the same nor does their culture makes them different. But, the reason might possibly be that features affiliated with masculinity and femininity is different. In her essay “The Egg and the Sperm: How science has constructed a romance based on stereotypical male-female roles,” Emily Martin argues that the way in which sperm and egg cells
In “Die Black Pervert” by Reginald Lockett, displays perfectly the militant and hyper-masculine mentality that was prominent throughout the movement. Also, ‘It is time for action’ by Bob Bennett is calling for a revolution in the poem but he states, “So you chumps, you punks, you faggots/ who ain’t movin’ yet.”. (quoted in Baraka, Neal 421) This quote clearly shows the attempt to portray gays as a group that is insufficient and inadequate. Another interpretation of this quote is that homosexuals have a type of coward-like demeanor, which, by means of the social norms of western civilization is considered feminine. Thus, giving the underlying message that homosexual males are in fact, not “men”.
In this paper, Judith Hill takes a non-Utalitarian (Kantian) approach to analyze the issue of pornography and its relation to the degradation of women. First, she talks about the concept of “degrading” someone. According to her, degrading someone does not merely refer to lowering someone’s worth or assigning a lower grade to someone, it refers to the “lowering on one’s moral status.” Degradation means depriving a person something that is a part of one’s innate human constitution. It means “treating someone as a means only, as though one were not an end in herself.” Degradation takes away one’s standing as a human who is entitled to respectful and regardful behaviour from others. Another major aspect to the act of degradation involves the idea of the act being apprehended by oneself and the PUBLIC as demeaning to one’s moral character.
Pacino’s Looking for Richard (LFR) draws on Shakespeare’s play King Richard III in his ‘docudrama-like-thing’ pursuing the goal of making Shakespeare more accessible for a notoriously uninterested 20th century audience. Through the connections implicit and explicit between the texts my understanding of the idea of legitimacy and language have been enriched through a relationship between the two texts where the appropriation affects the original text as well as the text influencing the appropriation. Despite differing contextual circumstances, the contestable nature of legitimacy and its fabrication of credibility is reflected in both LFR and RIII, whether it be over Shakespeare or monarchy. The reshaping of ideas in RIII has also illustrates
How do gender and sex contribute to the concepts and constructions of masculinity and femininity? Gender and sex contribute to the concepts and constructions of masculinity and femininity in many ways. Gender and sex concepts and constructions of masculinity and feminity of being able to tell the difference between the two. They show them as being completely different like males being the protector and the ladies as being caring and emotional Do our concepts of gender and sex contribute to the ways we embrace gender and sex in diversity? I feel that our concepts of gender and sex contribute to the ways we embrace gender and sex in diversity.
Alfred Adler Alfred Adler was a follower of Sigmund Freud but separated himself because he thought that Freud’s views were too strongly influence by sexual instincts. Adlerian theory suggests that a person is influenced by his or her social urges and conscious thought. Adler suggested that everything is not influenced by sexual urges and the unconscious (Cervone & Pervin, 2010). Adlerian theory emphasizes on birth order, social interests, and individual’s Lifestyle. Adlerian theory emphasizes on the concepts of inferiority and superiority as the key components of personality development.
She stresses that the fattening process is mainly about socializing sexuality, but I feel like it is more about social status – sexuality should be secondary to the social status. Popenoe looks at the fattening process in “wider cultural values and social structures”