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Reflection About Gender Essay

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Reflection 1:
Often gender and sex are used interchangeably. However the two are not the same. Gender is a set of socially constructed characteristics and behaviors assigned to the biological categories of male/female. Conversely, sex is defined as either of the two main categories into which humans and many other living things are divided based on their reproductive functions. With that it can be assumed that they are different but still they are used the same way. In this essay, gender will be proven to be a cultural construct that has nothing to do with biological phenomenon.
Notably, when it comes to biological phenomenon that deals with genetalia which refers to the sex not the gender. With that the sex system we have in place is greatly …show more content…

In Gender as an analytic category, Guy-Sheftall affirms, “Sexual attributes are a biologically given, but gender is a function of historical process.” The example she states, “The fact that women have to bear children is due to sex; that women are assigned the major responsibility throughout the world for nurturing children is due to gender, a cultural construct” This constructs is formed and reformed though many institutions such as school and jobs, and through others means such as religion, language and media and etc. We are what we continuously do. Society achieves this success of these constructs by continuing to normalize these roles and make others feel bad as soon as they step out of these bounds ensuring this process. Additionally, within Gender Talk, the phrase “the personal is political (pg. 4) is coined to depict how women are taught these roles. As women problems that occur are told to be private and must not be communicated outside this sphere but the issue with this thinking is that these problems need to be in the public so that laws and awareness can be made to ensure the solution to these problems therefore making the personal is political phrase. With all these complications gender is all based on cultural

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