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Post 2: What is gender?

What is gender? Where do we see it? How does society manage it (or tell us what it is, or should be)? Give a couple of examples of how society reinforces gender roles.

How does gender relate to power and privilege? Do some genders have fewer obstacles versus others? Why do you think this is? Who benefits? Who decides which gender is legitimate? How?

In our society, the number of genders has traditionally been two–male and female, which is restrictive and coercive to those who don’t identify that way. How many genders might there be?

How to create a post

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How to create a post

  • First, you must go on the professors website which is https://wgs1001sp21.commons.gc.cuny.edu 
  • After reaching on the website, go to our class time, which is found on the lefthand side, and click on Tuesdays 5;05 pm
  • Next, locate the “New+” button on the Top. It is very small and has a “+” next to it.
  • You will see 3 options; either “post, media or document” and click on post.
  • You must add featured image or it will say “The entry has no featured image” and you must select a category on the right side, under “categories”
  • After clicking on post, you will reach a screen with an empty white space where you can now post your weekly blogs on :))))

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POST 4

Missy is a fictional character from the show Big Mouth. She is a 13 year old biracial middle schooler and is one of the main characters of this show. Missy is a short, scrawny, emotional, geeky girl who has trouble finding herself. Something that stood out to me was one episode, she goes on a rant about how she does not find herself black enough. In this episode, she goes to visit her dad’s side of the family, and she proceeds to be confused about her identity. She mentions her white mom washes her hair with toothpaste, and yells at her dad for not “teaching” nor sharing his culture with her, which ultimately leads her to be an outcast to the black community. Although this show is fictional, this episode stood out to me because many biracial kids around the world can relate to not knowing where they fit in. Biracial kids who are more on the lighter side have skin color advantages and privileges but do not fit in with the white privilege because of their features, unless they are extremely white passing. Colorism is a very prevalent issue in many cultures, and because this character is on the fairer side, she reaps benefits socially. Missy grew in a predominantly white town with all white friends, in a very big house so she benefits from classism and socioeconomic privilege from being part of the middle class. When put in an environment with all black people, she does not seem to fit in. Socially white people would see her better than they do other black people that lean towards more stereotypical appearances, behaviors, language, etc.  White privilege is displayed in this episode when her African American father gets stopped at the airport for no reason, but her mom brought a gun and the police laughed with her. Missy is a small pre teen who is a showcase example for many other biracial kids.

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Annotated Bibliography

  1. Chafetz J.S. (2006) The Varieties of Gender Theory in Sociology. In: Handbook of the Sociology of Gender. Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research. Springer, Boston, MA . https://doi-org.brooklyn.ezproxy.cuny.edu/10.1007/0-387-36218-5_1
  1. Epstein C.F. (2006) Similarity and Difference. In: Handbook of the Sociology of Gender. Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research. Springer, Boston, MA . https://doi-org.brooklyn.ezproxy.cuny.edu/10.1007/0-387-36218-5_3
  1. Huber J. (2006) Comparative Gender Stratification. In: Handbook of the Sociology of Gender. Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research. Springer, Boston, MA . https://doi-org.brooklyn.ezproxy.cuny.edu/10.1007/0-387-36218-5_4
  1. Lopata H.Z. (2006) Gender and Social Roles. In: Handbook of the Sociology of Gender. Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research. Springer, Boston, MA . https://doi-org.brooklyn.ezproxy.cuny.edu/10.1007/0-387-36218-5_12
  1. Cragin B., Simonds W. (2006) The Study of Gender in Culture. In: Handbook of the Sociology of Gender. Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research. Springer, Boston, MA . https://doi-org.brooklyn.ezproxy.cuny.edu/10.1007/0-387-36218-5_10
  2. Dunn D., Skaggs S. (2006) Gender and Paid Work in Industrial Nations. In: Handbook of the Sociology of Gender. Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research. Springer, Boston, MA . https://doi-org.brooklyn.ezproxy.cuny.edu/10.1007/0-387-36218-5_15
  3. Pessin, L., & Arpino, B. (2018). Navigating between two cultures: Immigrants’ gender attitudes toward working women. Demographic Research, 38, 967–1016. 10.4054/demres.2018.38.35 (gender ideology influence immigrants views toward working women)
  4. Alesina, A. F., Giuliano, P., & Nunn, N. (2011). On the Origins of Gender Roles: Women and the Plough. SSRN Electronic Journal. Published. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1856152 (existing beliefs and values for role of women in society)

Radical Women of Color

An important entry from This Bridge Called My Back is from Chapter 1, pages 5-6) relates to the collection’s other essays because the book centers experiences of women in color and emphasizes points that is intersectionality with multiple different identities and challenging other feminists to make solid claims on their solidarity as uniting as a sisterhood.

A quote that represent the essay or poem is “When I was growing up, I hungered / for American food, American styles, / coded: white and even to be, a child / born of Chinese, being Chinese / was feeling foreign, was limiting, / was unAmerican.” This quote means it points out the equivalence that was created in mainstream white American culture that to be American meant to be white, and how this was internalized by not only immigrant communities, but for generations on.

It’s also meaningful because it responses to the white, middle-class, women’s movement of the era, and adding to women and women who are queer.

Final Project Plan

For my final project plan I would like to research women in sociology in cultures.  Im more interested if the population of women in society is more cultured or more work ethnic. There will be no issue or problem for me to investigate the culture of women in sociology. Finding the time for planning my final project is everyday. Finding material for the final project is not difficult. I have been researching and found information towards my topic of choice online and articles and personal papers on their culture of being a women of many advantages and disadvantages.

Gender, Sexuality and Power

In the several weeks of taking an intro class to Women’s Studies, I have learned many different classifications. The class consisted of Gender, Feminism, Sexuality and etc. just to name a few. Women Studies contained denotation and connotation with a historical and generational theme. I was intrigued to find out what the course was like. The course mainly introduces about people lives and experiences that focuses on social and cultural constructs of gender and its relationship between power and and gender. As an overall course, Women Studies can help women in society with their power of a voice and help women in color.

Queer Theory explanation

I learned all about queer theory. An excerpt from Judith Halberstam “In A Queer Time and Place” helped me understand more of what the concept is. Queer theory emphasises the fluid and humanly performed nature of sexuality – or better, sexualities Queer theory is a zone of possibilities. There are many norms when talking about sexuality. Some concepts to understand. Indeterminate is when fluidity comes to sexuality, gender an etc. amorphous broadly speaking of queer describes those gestures or analytical models which dramatise incoherencies in the allegedly stable relations between chromosomal sex, gender and sexual desire and desire women studies correlates to feminist theory to lesbian/gay studies to queer theory. We know this may be a bit confusing but if you read the excerpt you will receive a better understanding.