Post by alexander on Apr 21, 2016 16:17:07 GMT
Page 239 discusses the cultural construction of gender. What would you say is the overall cultural construction of gender in America? Does your personal perspective of gender align or counteract the cultural "norm" in America? Explain.
The phrase cultural construction of gender emphasizes that different cultures have distinctive ideas about males and females and use these ideas to define manhood/masculinity and womanhood/femininity.different cultures build up their ideas and beliefs about how the sexes differ and what these differences mean. How males and females perceive and define themselves and each other, what it means to be a woman or a man, what roles are appropriate for men and women—these and many other dimensions of femaleness and maleness are culturally variable, not universal to the human species or constant across all cultures. The notion that gender is culturally constructed is too easily and often misunderstood. Some scholars mistakenly believe that anthropologists claim that genetic differences between the sexes do not matter. They think we claim that differences in male and female behaviors are determined by culture, not genes. I think that the overall cultural construction of gender in America is not biological because there are several people who are male and believe they are female and female that believe that they are male. I believe that cultural construction of gender is based on biology so my personal perspective of gender does not align with the the cultural "norm" because the "norm" is that cultural construction of gender is the idea that the characteristics a people attribute to males and females are culturally, not biologically, determined. I do not believe there are female males and male females that is just a modern ideology. If it is not based on biology then there would be no one alive because mostly everyone would think that everyone else is the same gender as them.
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The phrase cultural construction of gender emphasizes that different cultures have distinctive ideas about males and females and use these ideas to define manhood/masculinity and womanhood/femininity.different cultures build up their ideas and beliefs about how the sexes differ and what these differences mean. How males and females perceive and define themselves and each other, what it means to be a woman or a man, what roles are appropriate for men and women—these and many other dimensions of femaleness and maleness are culturally variable, not universal to the human species or constant across all cultures. The notion that gender is culturally constructed is too easily and often misunderstood. Some scholars mistakenly believe that anthropologists claim that genetic differences between the sexes do not matter. They think we claim that differences in male and female behaviors are determined by culture, not genes. I think that the overall cultural construction of gender in America is not biological because there are several people who are male and believe they are female and female that believe that they are male. I believe that cultural construction of gender is based on biology so my personal perspective of gender does not align with the the cultural "norm" because the "norm" is that cultural construction of gender is the idea that the characteristics a people attribute to males and females are culturally, not biologically, determined. I do not believe there are female males and male females that is just a modern ideology. If it is not based on biology then there would be no one alive because mostly everyone would think that everyone else is the same gender as them.
Word count: 315
