In your culture, how do race and gender influence the assumptions people make about one’s socioeconomic status?Discuss
In your culture, how do race and gender influence the assumptions people make about one’s socioeconomic status?”
Tag: gender
When examining abortion, think of it more than just from the dominant white female/male perspective we are accustomed to hearing. What would transwomen say? Transmen? Gender queer?Discuss
For this assignment, you will need to select a social phenomenon and critically analyze it. Since the gender binary is so limiting in its perspective, expand on your analysis and think about how different gender expressions and the concept of intersectionality would interpret this phenomenon. For example, when examining abortion, think of it more than […]
What does it mean to say that gender is “socially constructed” and what role can clothing/fashion play in this process?Discuss
What does it mean to say that gender is “socially constructed” and what role can clothing/fashion play in this process? Use examples from at least two different course materials in your answer (including films, articles, textbook chapters).
Discuss some obstacles that reinforce the gender binary in the fashion industry. What are some possibilities to remove these obstacles?
Please watch the video below from 1:00-7:47 (you can view the whole video if you choose, but this is the part that I am referencing in this week’s question). Alok Vaid-Menon states in the video “it is easier to expect us to be resilient than it is to remove the obstacles that make it so […]
Write a paper that makes an argument about gender or sexuality in Girl, Woman:hat questions came up as you read the text, and what topics were brought to mind? What other texts from our syllabus came to mind as you read this novel?Discuss
Assignment Write a paper that makes an argument about gender or sexuality in Girl, Woman, Other. Focus on a specific chapter, character, or theme within the text and make a claim about how the text reflects, adds to, or changes the concepts of gender and sexuality as we’ve discussed them – for example, you might […]
Examine the impact globalization has had on your own life:Identify something you learned in this class that has had the greatest impact on you and your understanding of sex and gender.
Collaboration is an important practice, both in your academic and professional career. Anthropologists often collaborate with their colleagues, during research studies, at conferences, etc. This collaboration can lead to substantial anthropological advances and serves as an excellent professional development tool. Throughout this course, you will collaborate with your classmates, as you would with colleagues in […]
Sally Haslanger argues that gender, like race, is socially constructed. What does she mean by that? Is she right to say that gender arises out of social practices and is not a biological fact?Explain
In “Gender and Social Construction: Who? What? When? Where? How?” Sally Haslanger argues that gender, like race, is socially constructed. What does she mean by that? Is she right to say that gender arises out of social practices and is not a biological fact? How are women and men “socially constructed?” How are you, as […]
Describe an event, experience, relationship, that has had an impact on how you view or feel about your own sexuality or gender.
Describe an event, experience, relationship, that has had an impact on how you view or feel about your own sexuality or gender. It can be a single experience or moment, it can be a relationship, it can be something you learned or observed growing up. Something you did or something that happened to you but […]
How does gender, race, class, and/or sexuality intersect shape drag identity and performance? What effects do these drag performances have on the Key West community? What are the implications of drag on the larger sex/gender order?Discuss
Students must consider how performances of drag both reproduce and complicate taken-for-granted (biological) assumptions on sex, gender, and sexuality. How does gender, race, class, and/or sexuality intersect shape drag identity and performance? What effects do these drag performances have on the Key West community? What are the implications of drag on the larger sex/gender order? […]
Explore the gender roles and duties in their family, Did they experience differences with socioeconomic status as a result of the changing social issues?
Identify the person you chose to interview. The person needs to be born in 1965 or earlier and have grown up in the United States. Provide their first name only, age or generation, and their role in your life/community (leader, family member, friend, etc). Interview: you will complete a “qualitative” interview. This means the interview […]