The lenses of gender : transforming the debate on sexual inequality
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The lenses of gender : transforming the debate on sexual inequality
Yale University Press, c1993
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-237) and index
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: hbk ISBN 9780300056761
内容説明
In this book a leading theorist on sex and gender discusses how hidden assumptions embedded in our cultural discourses, social institutions, and individual psyches perpetuate male power and oppress women and sexual minorities. Sandra Lipsitz Bem argues that these assumptions, which she calls the lenses of gender, shape not only perceptions of social reality but also the more material things - like unequal pay and inadequate daycare - that constitute social reality itself. Her penetrating and articulate examination of these hidden cultural lenses enables us to look at them rather than through them and to better understand recent debates on gender and sexuality. According to Bem, the first lens, androcentrism (male-centredness), defines males and male experience as a standard or norm and females and female experience as a deviation from that norm. The second lens, gender polarization, superimposes male-female differences on virtually every aspect of human experience, from modes of dress and social roles to ways of expressing emotion and sexual desire.
The third lens, biological essentialism, rationalizes and legitimizes the other two lenses by treating them as the inevitable consequences of the intrinsic biological natures of women and men. After illustrating the pervasiveness of these three lenses in both historical and contemporary discourses of Western culture, Bem presents her own theory of how the individual either acquires cultural gender lenses and constructs a conventional gender identity or resists cultural lenses and constructs that we must reframe the debate on sexual inequality so that it focuses not only on the differences between men and women but on how male-centred discourses and institutions transform male-female difference into female disadvantage.
目次
- Introduction and overview
- biological essentialism - the Biological Politics of the Late-l9th and Early 20th Centuries The Modern period just-so stories of socio-biology
- The Modern Period II: Prenatal Hormone Theory An Alternative Hypothesis: The body in context but are there Really No Biological Differences Beyond the Body? 3 andocentrism Judaeo-Christian theology ancient Greek philosophy Freudian Psychoanalytic Theory American equal-rights law 4 Gender polarisation the Nineteenth century: Sexual Inversion The Twentieth Century 1: homosexuality the twentieth Century 11: Masculinity / Femininity Beyond Science: The Feminist Celebration of female differences 5 the construction of individual gender identity Previous Theoretical Perspectives The Process of enculturation the process of self-construction resisting the Culture's Lenses: The Making of a Gender nonconformist 6 transforming the debate on sexual inequality The Conundrum of Difference Toward True Gender nonconformist 6 transforming the debate on sexual inequality the conundrum of difference toward true gender Neutrality: Eradicating Androcentrism Toward Utopi : Eradicating Gender lolarisation Notes References
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: pbk ISBN 9780300061635
内容説明
In this book a leading theorist on sex and gender discusses how hidden assumptions embedded in our cultural discourses, social institutions, and individual psyches perpetuate male power and oppress women and sexual minorities. Sandra Lipsitz Bem argues that these assumptions, which she calls the lenses of gender, shape not only perceptions of social reality but also the more material things-like unequal pay and inadequate daycare-that constitute social reality itself. Her penetrating and articulate examination of these hidden cultural lenses enables us to look at them rather than through them and to better understand recent debates on gender and sexuality.
According to Bem, the first lens, androcentrism (male-centeredness), defines males and male experience as a standard or norm and females and female experience as a deviation from that norm. The second lens, gender polarization, superimposes male-female differences on virtually every aspect of human experience, from modes of dress and social roles to ways of expressing emotion and sexual desire. The third lens, biological essentialism, rationalizes and legitimizes the other two lenses by treating them as the inevitable consequences of the intrinsic biological natures of women and men.
After illustrating the pervasiveness of these three lenses in both historical and contemporary discourses of Western culture, Bem presents her own theory of how the individual either acquires cultural gender lenses and constructs a conventional gender identity or resists cultural lenses and constructs a gender-subversive identity. She contends that we must reframe the debate on sexual inequality so that it focuses not on the differences between men and women but on how male-centered discourses and institutions transform male-female difference into female disadvantage.
目次
- Part 1 Introduction and overview. Part 2 Biological essentialism: the Biological Politics of the Late-l9th and Early 20th Centuries
- The Modern Period I - Just-So Stories of Socio-Biology
- The Modern Period II - Prenatal Hormone Theory
- An Alternative Hypothesis - The Body in Context
- But Are There Really No Biological Differences Beyond the Body?. Part 3 Andocentrism: Judaeo-Christian Theology
- Ancient Greek Philosophy
- Freudian Psychoanalytic Theory
- American Equal-Rights Law. Part 4 Gender Polarization: The Nineteenth Century: Sexual Inversion
- The Twentieth Century I - Homosexuality
- The Twentieth Century II - Masculinity/Femininity
- Beyond Science: The Feminist Celebration of Female Differences. Part 5 The Construction of Individual Gender Identity: Previous Theoretical Perspectives
- The Process of Enculturation
- The Process of Self-Construction
- Resisting the Culture's Lenses - The Making of a Gender Nonconformist. Part 6 Transforming the Debate on Sexual Inequality: The Conundrum of Difference
- Toward True Gender Neutrality - Eradicating Androcentrism
- Toward Utopia - Eradicating Gender Polarization.
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