Judith Lorber The Social Construction Of Gender Analysis

For this week’s reading memo, I will be looking at The Social Construction of Gender by Judith Lorber, and Getting Off and Getting Intimate: How Normative Institutional Arrangements Structure Black and White Fraternity Men’s Approaches toward Women by Rashawn Ray and Jason A. Rasow. In The Social Construction of Gender, the most obvious argument lies within the title of the reading itself, Lorber is arguing that gender is a social construct yet still has an effect on people’s lives. One example Lorber gives is that women in Saudi Arabia are “kept out of sight, behind walls or veils, have no civil rights and often create a cultural or emotional world of their own”. She also states that gender inequality is “not the result of sex” but is “produced