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Running Head: ASSIGNMENT 3: MAJOR ESSAY 1
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ASSIGNMENT 3: MAJOR ESSAY
CHOSEN TOPIC: 5. CRITICALLY ASSESS THE PHRASE 'THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION GENDER'
Table of Contents
Introduction 3
Gender Construction in our Society 3
Social Construction of Gender 5
Conclusion 7
References 8
Introduction
Gender is that class pertaining as well as differentiating between, femininity and masculinity. Culture does not make any people; it is the human, who creates and differentiate it. It is matter of narcissist to say that human being is ought to be satisfied with tranquillity; they should posses’ certain action; they will make it if they cannot find it.
Heteronormativity is the cultural bias that clear out the boundary between male and female. Gender is thus, “socially constructed” in the sense that unlike the biological sex, gender is the element of a society. If the society, wants to change the perspectives of masculine and feminine, then the concept of gender can be get changed. This paper will critically analyse the phrase “the social construction of gender”.
Gender Construction in our Society
Gender identity can be defined through the perspectives and thinking procedures of a male and a female. Males have different sets of mind so as the females do. The physical appearance of both male and female are different, they generally learn more about the gender identity from their experiences. Both male and female have huge difference on biological perspectives but it does not seem to impact on how gender shapes their lives. There are several socio-cultural factors, which affect the gender role, which include the family, environment and society, which seems to affect the thought, behaviour as well as feelings of a human being.
Social construction of gender is mainly formed by the gender rule or the stereotypes of the society. It is the society, which builds the norms, cultures and designate the roles of male female. The gender identity is thereby constructed by the portrayal of gender norms, which include parental expectation about gender identity, mass media production, the belief of different religious tradition about gender.
The power of an individual is their radical self, which is never above them nor below them, but always beside them. Similarly, gender is also a power, which have the potentiality to dominate others. Here are some examples, which best explain the above statement. In case of Mexican woman, in term of gender inequity, the woman in this regard suffers the most, as they had to face the domestic violence and gender inequality on a regular basis. As stated by Yadav (2019), the Dalit woman are subjected in several forms of discrimination with no rights to take their own life decisions and are always consider sacrificing for each thing.
They are not allowed to raise their voice against any issues and are compelled to supress their despair. In an article, Pandey (2015) represents the feminism issues where women enjoy less power status and opportunities than men do. The women belonging to this group had to struggle to confirm the psychological and security safety issue in order to protect their families, as they had to work day and night to provide food to their children and maintain minimum living quality in order to survive.
As “masculinity” overbeats “feminism” therefore, the female is bound to perform every task ordered by their men who are...