Introduction to Women and Gender Studies 100 E Wilfrid Laurier University Instructor: Dr. Helen Ramirez Email: hramirez@wlu.ca Supplemental Instructor: Sarah Clarke Women and Gender Studies Librarian: Joanne Oud joud@wlu.ca Lecture: Mondays and Wednesdays 1- 2:20 In SBE 1220 Office Hours: Wednesdays 2:30 to 4pm Office: R106V Course Description: WS 100 is a multidisciplinary course that examines issues around gender with a particular emphasis on how women’s lives have been shaped by
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Gender Identity Do you ever imagine being born the opposite sex? I know I have days where I wish I was the opposite sex. To me being a female is a blessing and a curse‚ women were always supposed to be the home makers and men were always supposed to be the bread winners. In todays day and age I believe those roles can be swapped or even both can be "bread winners." I am definitely know I am not attending college to support someone else though I know that much! If I were born a male my life would
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BOYS VS. GIRLS: THE GENDER ROLES By: Samantha Samsel Boys Vs. Girls: The Gender Roles “Girls can wear jeans and cut their hair short and wear shirts and boots because it’s okay to be a boy; for girls it’s like promotion. But for a boy to look like a girl is degrading‚ according to you‚ because secretly you believe that being a girl is degrading.” (McEwan‚1978)‚ Gender roles are the roles that each gender gets that shows people how they are supposed to act. Gender roles have been planted in
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Conjugal roles are roles within marriage. Segregated conjugal roles are couples with separate roles. The man is the breadwinner and the woman is the housewife. Leisure activities are also separate. Joint conjugal roles are couples that share housework and childcare and spend leisure time together. Young and willmotts study on the symmetrical family shows a nuclear family where roles of men and women perform similar and shared roles. They claim that within a symmetrical family‚ the roles of husbands
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it is funny/ true about traditional women. Women has small feet‚ so they can easy run around the house to get housework done‚ and especially small feet women can get closer to the skin to wash dishes. This often makes me mad about the existence of gender discrimination‚ I don’t believe that there is anything men or women should or should not do. Housework is not only women’s job; it belongs to the whole family‚ so therefore everyone has the equal responsibility to take care of it. There should not
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topics these days seem to be related to sexual identity‚ equal rights‚ and gender roles. It is no doubt that sex and gender roles play a substantial role in society; however‚ these terms are often mistakenly used interchangeably and incorrectly. The American Psychological Association defines ones sex as their biological determinant (i.e. male or female) and this does not naturally change from the time of birth; whereas gender “refers to the attitudes‚ feelings‚ and behaviors that a given culture associates
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Since the beginning of time men have played the dominant role in nearly every culture around the world. If the men were not dominant‚ then the women and men in the culture were equal. Never has a culture been found where women have dominated. In "Society and Sex Roles" by Ernestine Friedl‚ Friedl supports the previous statement and suggests that "although the degree of masculine authority may vary from one group to the next‚ males always have more power" (261). Friedl discusses a variety of diverse
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In comparison‚ Taming of the Shrew play and 10 Things I hate about You film both share similarities and differences. The relationship between Kat and Pat is a lot different than Kate and Petruchio between both titles. The similarities between how they tame Kate and the differences between the woman’s roles. Patrick and Petruchio are the ones to ‘tame the shrew’. Patrick’s is seen as Kat’s peer‚ while Petruchio is more of Katherine’s master. Petruchio had starved and wouldn’t let Katherine sleep
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The basic plots of Taming of the Shrew and 10 Things I Hate about You both involve multiple men wanting to be with a nice‚ beautiful girl named Bianca‚ but Bianca has a mean‚ older sister named Katherine that no one wants to be with. In both of the stories‚ the father of these two
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Gender Identity Shaterra Johnson PSY 265 March 20‚ 2014 Ratonya Bennett Sometimes‚ when we here gender identification and gender roles‚ we may think that they are the same thing. Yes‚ they may seem to be similar in some ways‚ but they are definitely different. Gender identity is how you feel about your gender and how you express it towards others. Gender roles are how people act in order to express whatever gender they may be. Gender identification and gender roles are very important
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