A Vindication of the Rights of Women’ is an early example of a feminist outlook; Wollstonecraft aims to define, establish and defend equal political, economic, and social rights and equal opportunities for women. In this extract, Wollstonecraft “speaks of passion”; she believes that women were not given the right choices; they were not educated to the full. This affects their choices and they don’t have the full knowledge that they should have been provided with. Jill tweedy was also a feminist writer, who had a balanced view of the relationships between men and women. She believed that women should be equal to men in relationships.
This includes our organs and genitalia. When we all were young the sex also defined the masculinity and femininity of the person. But in today's society no matter the actual sex or gender of the person. the dominating role is perceived as the masculine role and the weaker or more submissive person is perceived as the feminine role. Do our concepts of gender and sex contribute to the ways we embrace gender and sex in diversity?
How is gender a social construction of reality? The typical gender identity widely known today such as the girly girl or the tough boy was formed by our society. The term gender is a symbolic construction that expresses the meanings a society confers on biological sex. Social construction of reality is that by consistently being treated in a certain way, we begin to expect to be treated in that way. With that being said, there is some sort of development of awareness of what is normal and what is not for a gender.
A person being born a female does not necessarily mean they are destined to be of feminine gender, even though this is what is seen as the norm in most societies today. Women may choose to portray traits of the masculine gender, as De Beauvior wrote, “we are not born but become women.” Gender is not something we are but something we become, and this highly shapes a person’s behaviour. For example, in Islamic countries some women have chosen to conduct themselves according to the feminine role and live their life according to the feminine order of daughter, sister, wife and mother, whereas other women assert themselves and refuse to conform. They can be said to have a masculine character. “Gender is a term that has psychological and cultural connotations.
Doctor Money believed that social factors override biological factors in gender identity. When you are born you are identified by your gender (genitalia), from this children are exposed to different labels, e.g. boys being associated with the colour blue and girls being associated with the colour pink and different treatments, e.g. rewarding appropriate behaviour (girls playing with dolls) and punishing inappropriate behaviour (girls playing with cars). Money predicted that if you are mislabelled at birth and subjected to inappropriate labels and treatment before the age of three, then the infant would then acquire the identity of the gender that they were labelled.
Because women could give birth, their roles were valuable than men in some societies. On the basis of this assumption, it is possible that matriarchy existed and women ruled meaning men have not always been leaders. Based on evidence from archaeologist, the beginning of civilization was female-centered with females figures known as Earth Mother or the Mother Goddess. Great leaders such as Hatshepsut and Cleopatra are rooted in many minds to be the first female leaders of great societies and examples of strong independent women. They conquered great societal barriers in order to achieve their goals.
Through these parent-children interactions as they develop, they learn gender stereotype behaviors. As a result, they entrench these stereotypes firmly as they grow thus, become part of the children self-concept. Parents usually tend to treat their children differently depending on their gender, regardless of inclination of one gender over the other. Although these inclinations are found to have little effect on the child’s sexual development, the results of gender typing are realized during adulthood. Environments do not only influence children’s gender role behavior, but to a large extent it is affected by the gender stereotyping.
No significant sex difference was found. Analyses affirm a significant disparity between how well a securely and insecurely attached infants maneuver in their environment, with securely attached having an easier time negotiating than insecurely attached infants. Because the study had some methodological limitations and some alternative hypotheses that may also explain the phenomenon at hand, the study should be looked at as a preliminary. In future studies dealing with competence, the sampling pool should be large enough to allow separate assessments of both attachment and of difficulty of
Perhaps most importantly, women were held in high-esteem for being mothers to Mesopotamian children, and for taking care of household chores (Harris, Preface). The legal power given to them may have been less than their male counterparts, but they at least had the right to prove their innocence in most cases, which shows they weren’t considered disposable citizenry (The Code of Hammurabi). To fully understand the social and family structure of Mesopotamia, it is important to clearly define the female gender role as it was in Mesopotamia. To examine the role of the female as nurturer and mother, we must first examine the cultures views of children. It appears that children were treated with great affection (Harris 21).
This is around age two to three and a half. They will use the word girl or boy to label themselves and others around them but they don’t have a very good grasp on what is means to be a boy or a girl and still do not understand that our gender stays constant and the same in most cases. Gender Stability When children get to about three and a half they will begin to understand that their own gender will not be changing as they get older. For example by the time they are four they understand that when they grow up they are either going to be a Mummy or a Daddy. However even at this age children will be misled by appearances that do not match what they expect a man or a woman should look like.