Analysis Of Judith Lorber s A World Without Gender

Barbara Perry’s article â€Å"Doing Gender and Doing Gender Inappropriately† addresses violence and gender, and how gender is influenced through the way it is perceived in society. The construction of gender comes in polar extremes, with masculine dominant men and feminine subordinate women. Gendered violence is used to control women as a class. It is a systematic tool used by men to reinforce gender norms and patriarchal ideas of masculine superiority and feminine inferiority. It â€Å"terrorizes the collective by victimizing the individual†. Like any dichotomy, it has scripts, and to deviate from these scripts will leave you labeled as ‘unnatural’ and ‘immoral’. These scripts â€Å"constrain everything from modes of dress and social roles to ways of expressing emotion and sexual desire†. In Judith Lorber’s â€Å"A World Without Gender† we are introduced to the possibility of eliminating gender and how â€Å"dege ndering [would] undercut the patriarchal and oppressive structure of Western Societies†. Women are raised from childhood to protect themselves from men. We are taught to always be cautious of where men are around us. Ask any women if she feels safe walking in the streets after dark, or walking alone. The answer will inevitably be â€Å"no†. Women are raised to always take precautions. From carrying our keys as we walk to our car, to checking the back seats of our cars before we enter to make sure there isn’t some masked hiding man back there waiting to abduct us. We lock our doors as soonShow MoreRelatedCausal Thinking Based On Correlational Findings1533 Words   |  7 Pagesdisregard for environmental and cultural factors led to justifications for racism and racial thinking, illustrating the impact science and scientific thought can have on our culture and our daily lives. Richardson discusses a similar phenomenon in the world of sex research, Havelock Ellis and Stanley Hall claimed that men must have an inherent genetic edge because if you examine the de mographics of 19th century institutions, there is an overwhelming majority of men. Due to ideas that men had a geneticRead MoreAnalysis Of The House On Mango Street1051 Words   |  5 Pages Analysis of The House on Mango Street By: Sandra Cisneros Carley Deklotz GWSS:1001:0A02 Professor Sue Stanfield The environment people grow up in can have a huge impact on their identity and who they become. In the novel, The House on Mango Street, the author tells a series of short stories through the eyes of Esperanza Cordero. Esperanza is a young Latina growing up in Chicago, and through her stories shows the reader her environment and how in affects her. Things like gender roles, sexual