Theorizing Gender

Theorizing Gender

Introduction

Our individuality has deep roots that escape us and beyond us because they are alien to us. Others have grown for us without our knowledge. Since childhood, we are taught values and their sexuality is extremely marked. Concepts of femininity and masculinity are well known, and form a large part of our way of seeing the world. We can see every day the mechanisms at work, organizing the categorization of people according to two models: the man "masculine" and women "feminine." But they also say that this woman is not "feminine" or that such a man is "effeminate". Distribution is not as simple as you might think. So what is behind the concepts of masculinity and femininity, and if they are not exclusively biological, as can already suspect, how they are developed and embedded.

Discussion

The social construction of gender identity is common and particular aspects that change from one social group to another, according to their cultural heritage, values and different geographical areas or spaces. Thus one can speak of "social construction" of gender identity, referring to is not just building a social process, but many. Hence the heterogeneity of female and male identities are observed in society. The identity formation process determines the opportunities and constraints that each individual will, after their kind, to fully develop: access and control of resources, their capacity for decision-making, their ability to create and propose efficient ways doing things, but also determines the possibilities of sustainable development for the community in which it develops. This social construction of gender leads to the creation of social gender inequalities. The construction of gender in power and subordination, determines the subordination of one of them, the female dominance and power compared to the other gender, masculine. The values established as standards by social conditioning comes a ...