Showing posts with label Gender. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gender. Show all posts
Sunday, July 27, 2014
Friday, July 11, 2014
ASU professor encourages students to defy body hair norms
Excellent Research
https://asunews.asu.edu/20140703-body-shaving#.U7gk07tzEEg.twitter
Since 2010 Breanne Fahs, associate professor of women and gender studies in ASU’s New College of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences has offered students the chance to participate in an extra-credit exercise related to body hair.
Female student participants stop shaving their legs and underarms for 10 weeks during the semester while keeping a journal to document their experiences. For male students, the assignment is to shave all body hair from the neck down.
Robinson says part of her motivation for deciding to participate in the exercise was that in previous semesters she felt left out of the sense of the camaraderie of the students who were all bonding over their body hair, or lack thereof for males in the class.
That act of rebellion isn’t quite the same for males as females, according to Fahs. It’s not uncommon in our society for some men to engage in “manscaping,” removing hair from some parts of their bodies. For the extra-credit assignment, she asks male students to shave everything below the neck and maintain it for 10 weeks. This makes the process labor-intensive and gives men some insight into what women who shave go through, she said.
https://asunews.asu.edu/20140703-body-shaving#.U7gk07tzEEg.twitter
Since 2010 Breanne Fahs, associate professor of women and gender studies in ASU’s New College of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences has offered students the chance to participate in an extra-credit exercise related to body hair.
Female student participants stop shaving their legs and underarms for 10 weeks during the semester while keeping a journal to document their experiences. For male students, the assignment is to shave all body hair from the neck down.
Robinson says part of her motivation for deciding to participate in the exercise was that in previous semesters she felt left out of the sense of the camaraderie of the students who were all bonding over their body hair, or lack thereof for males in the class.
That act of rebellion isn’t quite the same for males as females, according to Fahs. It’s not uncommon in our society for some men to engage in “manscaping,” removing hair from some parts of their bodies. For the extra-credit assignment, she asks male students to shave everything below the neck and maintain it for 10 weeks. This makes the process labor-intensive and gives men some insight into what women who shave go through, she said.
Wednesday, March 26, 2014
Transgender Since Birth or Not?
For 8 Years, She Convinced The World She Was A Boy. Now, She's Making Us Rethink Sexuality
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tedtalks/io-tillett-wright-ted_b_5295619.html?ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000063
Can We Put This Chart In Every Public Restroom? 'Cause That Would Be Wonderful.
http://www.upworthy.com/can-we-put-this-chart-in-every-public-restroom-cause-that-would-be-wonderful?c=ufb1
Binary Myths
http://everydayfeminism.com/2014/12/myths-non-binary-people/
Can We Put This Chart In Every Public Restroom? 'Cause That Would Be Wonderful.
http://www.upworthy.com/can-we-put-this-chart-in-every-public-restroom-cause-that-would-be-wonderful?c=ufb1
Binary Myths
http://everydayfeminism.com/2014/12/myths-non-binary-people/
Friday, February 28, 2014
Gender Gaps in Cinema
The Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media site is AMAZING in all that it offers about feminism and sexism. http://www.seejane.org/
The gender game in SCREEN TIME
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/02/movies/awardsseason/cinemetrics-extracts-statistical-data-from-movies.html?smid=tw-share&_r=2
"Whether by sight or sound, Ms. Bullock occupies 87 percent of “Gravity’s” running time, more than any other nominee this year and well above the average among her competitors for best actress. One disquieting finding from my research is that this year’s lead actors average 85 minutes on screen, but lead actresses average only 57 minutes. (When you add in supporting categories, all competing actors averaged 59 minutes, while all competing actresses averaged 42 minutes.) Last year’s results were even more imbalanced: nominated male stars averaged 100 minutes on screen to the lead actresses’ 49 minutes"
BECHDEL Test Movie List - There are two or more women in this movie and they talk to each other about something other than a man
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CCUQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fbechdeltest.com%2F&ei=IPAQU6iaDJDp0QHRt4GgCw&usg=AFQjCNEjt5tyjNHLCEvAvKJsdjF4l1zZbw&sig2=vQyfi6yaaMCyLh3N-xLtFg&bvm=bv.62286460,d.dmQThe gender game in SCREEN TIME
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/02/movies/awardsseason/cinemetrics-extracts-statistical-data-from-movies.html?smid=tw-share&_r=2
"Whether by sight or sound, Ms. Bullock occupies 87 percent of “Gravity’s” running time, more than any other nominee this year and well above the average among her competitors for best actress. One disquieting finding from my research is that this year’s lead actors average 85 minutes on screen, but lead actresses average only 57 minutes. (When you add in supporting categories, all competing actors averaged 59 minutes, while all competing actresses averaged 42 minutes.) Last year’s results were even more imbalanced: nominated male stars averaged 100 minutes on screen to the lead actresses’ 49 minutes"
Wednesday, October 30, 2013
Thursday, July 4, 2013
Gender Roles
It's not "funny" - This is a serious message. What about men who actually do dress like this?
"When Spanish photographer Jon Uriarte first started exploring relationship dynamics and gender roles in his work, he did so by photographing couples together in their shared homes. But at some point, he realized that this method wasn’t getting his message across — that’s when he switched to a stranger, more humorous approach. Instead of photographing couples, he simply photographed the man dressed in his girlfriend’s clothing. The series is called The Men Under the Influence, and it explores the effect that women’s rise to equal status both inside and outside the home has had on men."
http://petapixel.com/2013/07/04/funny-portraits-of-men-dressed-in-their-girlfriends-clothing/
Representations of men and women in advertising. What if gender roles are reversed?
"When Spanish photographer Jon Uriarte first started exploring relationship dynamics and gender roles in his work, he did so by photographing couples together in their shared homes. But at some point, he realized that this method wasn’t getting his message across — that’s when he switched to a stranger, more humorous approach. Instead of photographing couples, he simply photographed the man dressed in his girlfriend’s clothing. The series is called The Men Under the Influence, and it explores the effect that women’s rise to equal status both inside and outside the home has had on men."
http://petapixel.com/2013/07/04/funny-portraits-of-men-dressed-in-their-girlfriends-clothing/
Representations of men and women in advertising. What if gender roles are reversed?
Saturday, June 1, 2013
Advertising Influences How We Think About Gender and Sexuality
Including how we think about how to treat men and women.
http://www.policymic.com/articles/42717/think-american-apparel-isn-t-sexist-maybe-this-will-convince-you
Monday, January 30, 2012
Wednesday, December 21, 2011
Led by the Child Who Simply Knew
The twin boys were identical in every way but one. Wyatt was a girl to the core, and now lives as one, with the help of a brave, loving family and a path-breaking doctor’s care. http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2011/12/11/led-child-who-simply-knew/SsH1U9Pn9JKArTiumZdxaL/story.html
Until recently, there was little help for children in such situations. But now a groundbreaking clinic at Children’s Hospital in Boston — one of the few of its kind in the world — helps families deal with the issues, both emotional and medical, that arise from having a transgender child — one who doesn’t identify with the gender he or she was born into.
The Children’s Hospital Gender Management Services Clinic can, using hormone therapies, halt puberty in transgender children, blocking the development of secondary sexual characteristics — a beard, say, or breasts — that can make the eventual transition to the other gender more difficult, painful, and costly.
Until recently, there was little help for children in such situations. But now a groundbreaking clinic at Children’s Hospital in Boston — one of the few of its kind in the world — helps families deal with the issues, both emotional and medical, that arise from having a transgender child — one who doesn’t identify with the gender he or she was born into.
The Children’s Hospital Gender Management Services Clinic can, using hormone therapies, halt puberty in transgender children, blocking the development of secondary sexual characteristics — a beard, say, or breasts — that can make the eventual transition to the other gender more difficult, painful, and costly.
Friday, November 11, 2011
Saturday, July 2, 2011
Gender Is Dead! Long Live Gender!
Gender Is Dead! Long Live Gender! http://www.npr.org/blogs/13.7/2011/06/28/137398402/gender-is-dead-long-live-gender: Categories like heterosexual, professor and cheerleader exhibit what the Canadian philosopher of science Ian Hacking has called looping effects. It is only if you have the relevant concepts, that you can come to think of yourself as classified as this way or that. And once you can think of yourself as being a person of a certain kind, you can also, through choices both conscious and unconscious, either make it the case that you are a person of the kind of question, or that you are not. You can, in this sense, construct your identity. But you couldn't do this without the availability of the category in the first place. As Hacking writes:
And so with the concepts male and female. Consider another study Fine reports on in her book. Students at a private college were asked to perform a spatial reasoning task. Before the test one group of students filled out a form on which they were asked to report their gender. The other group was not asked this question but was instead asked to name their university. In this way, one group was "primed" to consider themselves in the light of gender identity, whereas the other was primed to think of themselves under the category "private college student."
Men primed to think of their gender showed a marked improvement in performance over men who were primed to think of themselves as students at a private college. Exactly the opposite was observed in women. Women primed to consider their status as students at a private college significantly outperformed women who'd been primed to think of themselves as women.
It is as if the mere questions — male? female? student? — by reminding the students what kind of person they are, determined how well they could perform on the test.
Consider another study Fine reports on in her book. Students at a private college were asked to perform a spatial reasoning task. Before the test one group of students filled out a form on which they were asked to report their gender. The other group was not asked this question but was instead asked to name their university. In this way, one group was "primed" to consider themselves in the light of gender identity, whereas the other was primed to think of themselves under the category "private college student."
Men primed to think of their gender showed a marked improvement in performance over men who were primed to think of themselves as students at a private college. Exactly the opposite was observed in women. Women primed to consider their status as students at a private college significantly outperformed women who'd been primed to think of themselves as women.
It is as if the mere questions — male? female? student? — by reminding the students what kind of person they are, determined how well they could perform on the test.
"Looping effects are everywhere: Think what the category of genius did to those Romantics who saw themselves as geniuses, and what their behavior in turn did to the category of genius itself. Think about the transformations effected by the notions of fat, overweight, anorexic."I don't mean that we decide to be straight, in the way we decide to be a professor or a cheerleader. What I mean, rather, is that being straight isn't only a matter of acting or being disposed to act this way or that. It's a way of thinking about yourself. And with this way of thinking about yourself comes a whole complex of associated qualities, limitations and also expectations that loop back on to the way we act and are disposed to act.
And so with the concepts male and female. Consider another study Fine reports on in her book. Students at a private college were asked to perform a spatial reasoning task. Before the test one group of students filled out a form on which they were asked to report their gender. The other group was not asked this question but was instead asked to name their university. In this way, one group was "primed" to consider themselves in the light of gender identity, whereas the other was primed to think of themselves under the category "private college student."
Men primed to think of their gender showed a marked improvement in performance over men who were primed to think of themselves as students at a private college. Exactly the opposite was observed in women. Women primed to consider their status as students at a private college significantly outperformed women who'd been primed to think of themselves as women.
It is as if the mere questions — male? female? student? — by reminding the students what kind of person they are, determined how well they could perform on the test.
Consider another study Fine reports on in her book. Students at a private college were asked to perform a spatial reasoning task. Before the test one group of students filled out a form on which they were asked to report their gender. The other group was not asked this question but was instead asked to name their university. In this way, one group was "primed" to consider themselves in the light of gender identity, whereas the other was primed to think of themselves under the category "private college student."
Men primed to think of their gender showed a marked improvement in performance over men who were primed to think of themselves as students at a private college. Exactly the opposite was observed in women. Women primed to consider their status as students at a private college significantly outperformed women who'd been primed to think of themselves as women.
It is as if the mere questions — male? female? student? — by reminding the students what kind of person they are, determined how well they could perform on the test.
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