Thursday, September 18, 2014

Social construcction of gender

In this image there is a boy and a girl playing with their toys. The boy is playing with the boy action figure toys and the girl is playing with the doll. I took this picture at my home. The image shows a girl and boy playing with their gendered assign toys.

Judith Lorber say, " one is not born but rather becomes a woman; it is civilization as  a whole that produces this creature which described as feminine". Social construction of gender is learned rather than felt. In this picture these two children have learned that they should play with their expected gender toys. The girl is expected to play with the doll. The boy is expected to play with the action figure toys. In the story Storm Jazz and Kio are not presented with what they should play with boy's toys because they are boys, but their parents let them choose what they will play with.

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