Critically examine recent theories of Gender.
How do we begin to examine recent theories of Gender.
Changes in women's conditions over the 19th & 20th centuries from the perspective of the French Declarations of the rights of man & citizen (1989). In contrast to the conditions that existed before the declaration was issued, it can be said that its points have been fulfilled. .
The positions that women now occupy is vastly improved over that of prior generations, even though contemporary struggles would mask the gains that have been made. Class, gender, & education are but a few issues that could be discussed. In recent years there has been a growing dissatisfaction with class theory & an increased awareness of the significance of the over factors in the generation of structured social equalities: high amongst these other factors is gender. .
The focus is on the sociological conception of gender differences & inequalities with & special reference to their occurrence in contemporary Britain, to understand the major differences between socio-biological, psychological & sociological perspectives on gender. .
To focus on one important example, consider the sex/gender distinction. To those who "take gender seriously", sex refers to biological distinctions between men & women, most obviously differences in reproductive organs. To use sex as a variable means to ask whether it makes a difference whether an actor or a subject is male or female.
For gender theorist this ought to mean asking whether biological differences alone (be they hormonal, muscular or variations in height/weight/body-fat ratios) make a difference in the dependent variable. .
Alleged differences in emotional level, sex-role programming, or personality type, are for the gender theorist, are unrelated to biology & can't be presumed to be studied merely by analyzing variations in biological sex.
Such differences between men & women, where they do exist, are not based on in actual biological differences but on socially constructed beliefs about sex-difference: gender beliefs.
