Part 2

Social construction of gender

History of disparity, discrimination and struggle

Contemporary disparities

Variants of Feminism

Everyday life

Popular culture

The complex, contradictory and confusing

Gender is not a thing

Gender is a practice

Gender cannot be separated from the practices that constitute the social, cultural, political and economic (re)production of masculinity and femininity

Masculinity : What it means to be a man, how to be manly,

Femininity: What it means to be a woman, how to be womanly

Not stable, contested, change over time

Connected with practices of race, class, sexuality, age, religion, etc.

What things do you do everyday that are determined by gender or have gendered consequences?

Clothing Grooming and hygiene How you talk Who you (can) talk with What and how you read, write, watch What courses you take How much money you make Where you go to the bathroom

Historically :

“Not too long ago, man up was simply an alternative to the verb man, in the sense of “to supply with adequate manpower.” (Staff or staff up would be the more politically correct choices nowadays.)”

Advertising Campaigns

Popular saying in recent elections in the United States

Man Up Campaign

Historically:

A term used to insinuate that people who do not espouse conservative sentiments/ideology are (somehow) effeminate. Synonym's wimpy, limp-wristed, sissy. Pinko-Commie commonly used during the Cold-War (1950s – 1980s).

Resurgence with conservative commentators in Canada and the United States

Reappropriated

Clothing Designer

Old boy, loud mouthed, politically incorrect

“He tells it as it is” or “Calls’em how he sees’em”

Flamboyant, a performer, all talk

Fighting in Hockey

Refers to herself as: Mama Grizzly, Hockey Mom, Mother of a Soldier, hunter/gun enthusiast, feminist

“What’s the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull? Lipstick!”

Vice-Presidential Candidate; former mayor and governor, former beauty pageant contestant

Does gender matter?

How does gender matter?

Where and when does gender matter?

Why does gender matter?