2. GENDER ROLES??
• Gender roles are cultural and
personal. Meaning to say : they are
not natural but are “naturalised”.
• They determine how males and
females should think, speak, dress,
and interact within the context of
society.
3. • These roles are internalized and
thus accepted by all of us across
the globe.
• The question to ask- when does
this internalization start??
4. When you first color a room pink or blue for your
unborn baby, you start prescribing a certain set of
characteristics to your child.
5. • In his essay “Toys”, a French literary theorist, talks
of French Toys.
• These toys are essentially a microcosm of the adult
world; reduced copies of human objects, “as if in the
eyes of the public the child was, all told, nothing but
a smaller man who must be supplied with objects of
his own size”
• “The fact that French toys literally prefigure the
world of adult functions obviously cannot but
prepare the child to accept them all, by constituting
for him, even before he can think about it, the alibi of
a Nature which has at all times created soldiers,
postmen and Vespas. ”
6. So what are
toys basically??
• An adult human beings aspiration to create
miniature adults, our copies out of our children .
7. • A boy is always gifted a car, a gun, a
soldier, a superhero, etc.
• A girl is always gifted a doll/ Barbie, a
pony, etc.
10. Cultural roles and stereotypes
• Once the process of compartmentalizing
is initiated it never stops, is met at every
point in life.
• The society
succumbs to and
also expects men
and women to
behave in certain
respective
fashions.
34. PARADISE LOST –
JONATHAN SWIFT
• For contemplation he and valor formed,
For softness she and sweet attractive
grace;
He for God only, she for God in him.
His fair large front and eye sublime
declar'd
Absolute rule;
