LANGUAGE AND GENDER CHAPTER 01 LEARNING ASYMMETRY SEPARATION HETROSEXUAL MARKET CONVENTION IDEOLOGY HEGEMONY
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2. LEARNING ASYMMETRY
• Unequal treatment with any of the gender
• Boys activities are more highly valued than
girls activities
• Boys are strongly discouraged for having
interests and activities that are associated
with girls
• If girls wear clothing like boys it is
stigmatized
4. SEPARATION
• Boys play more with boys; girls with
girls
• Girls are admired if they prefer to
play with boys
• But boys are not
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6. The Hetrosexual Market
• Attraction towards opposite
sex
• Everywhere We see images of
perfect couple they are
heterosexual
• He is taller bigger or darker
than her
• She is lower than him
7. Convention
• Blindly follow
• we do without considering reasons behind
them
• For example
• We automatically say Mr. And Mrs not Mrs
and Mr .
• Husband and wife not wife and husband
8. Ideology
• System of belief by which people justify their
behavior
• Gender ideology is the set of belief by which
they explain and justify their participation
• Gender ideology refers to attitudes
regarding the appropriate roles, rights
and responsibilities of men and women
in society.
9. Traditional gender ideologies
emphasizes the value of distinctive
roles for women and men where
men fulfill their family roles through
breadwinning activities and women
fulfill their roles through
homemaker and parenting
activities.
10. Hegemony
• Giving power willingly
• Dominence
• Naturalized the dominance
of other
• In petrarchan society men's
dominance over women