{"id":1401,"date":"2018-09-16T18:27:51","date_gmt":"2018-09-16T22:27:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/thesystem\/?p=1401"},"modified":"2018-09-16T18:27:51","modified_gmt":"2018-09-16T22:27:51","slug":"brief-for-09-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/thesystem\/2018\/09\/16\/brief-for-09-17\/","title":{"rendered":"Brief for 09\/17"},"content":{"rendered":"

This article, The Technology of Gender<\/em>, is heavily filled with the substance of social concepts and relations regarding Gender. In the core of the substance, I sense, lies a logical relationship as the author states in one sentence: \u201cThe construction of gender is the product and the process of both representation and self-representation\u201d<\/i> (9). In other words, there is a mutual impact between the ideology of gender and the representation of the society, where the former is causally formed by and actively forming the society.<\/p>\n

I will explain these two segments respectively.<\/p>\n

First, the concept of gender is a social construction, which includes the biological facts as its fundamental and the cultural and socio-economic values that lie above. Each individual man and woman carries a gene that separates them from the opposite group of people, which is known as sex, that has a great impact on how people of different groups behave: it varies from which restroom to use to which size of T-shirt to wear. However, it is the cultural and socio-economic structure that has a greater impact on the construction of Gender, which is different from and the ideology of sex. As stated in the article, \u201c\u2026gender is not a property of bodies or something originally existent in human beings, but \u2018the set of effects produced in bodies, behaviors and social relations\u2019.\u201d <\/i>(3) Gender is constructed by cultural values and socio-economic hierarchies that might have accumulated for thousands of years. One of the driving forces is \u201cpatriarchy\u201d as mentioned on the very first page of the article, which resonates with \u201cpower relation\u201d and \u201cdominance\u201d we discussed in the previous classes. The power inequality between groups identified as Males and Females used to create deformed \u201cpublic consumption\u201d (I\u2019m stealing the concept from Can you be Black and Look at this<\/em>). For example, try to search for the word \u201cprostitute\u201d in an English dictionary, and it\u2019s easy to get an explanation like \u201cA person, in particular a WOMAN, who engages in sexual activity for payment\u201d (English, Oxford Living Dictionaries<\/em>). Whether it\u2019s conscious or not, it puts Male in a rather dominant position as the \u201cstagers\u201d and \u201cconsumers\u201d in this business spectacle (also from Can you be Black and Look at this<\/em>).<\/p>\n

The ideology of Gender is an \u201cimagination\u201d that draws one\u2019s \u201cborders\u201d (Emergent Strategy<\/em>, <\/i>18) and \u201cgoverns their existence\u201d (The Technology of Gender<\/em>, <\/i>6). It helps reinforce the social norms we are living with and the recognition of oneself. However, this imagination could also be \u201can indication of capability\u201d that traps people and hard to break free (Emergent Strategy<\/em>, <\/i>18). As an example of how the imagination forms social representation, the author quotes from Michele Barrett: \u201cthe ideology of gender\u2026has played an important part in the historical construction of the capitalist division of labour and in the reproduction of labour power\u201d (The Technology of Gender,\u00a0<\/em>7). The way the large majority of people view the opposite-gendered group, as well as themselves, continues to build the social structure they\u2019re living in that includes roles and responsibilities for Males and Females in both domestic and public spheres. This gender system also reflects the relationship between \u201cwitness and participants\u201d from Can you be Black and Look at this<\/em>. When people are viewing the same events, they are more likely to picture themselves in the perspective that the subject shares more similarities with them, which is why Females tend to consider themselves as victims in terms of rape whereas Males are likely regarded as culprits. This phenomenon is greatly shaped by the way media describes the incidents, as well as the self perception of our roles in similar incidents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This article, The Technology of Gender, is heavily filled with the substance of social concepts and relations regarding Gender. In the core of the substance, I sense, lies a logical relationship as the author states in one sentence: \u201cThe construction of gender is the product and the process of both …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3458,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2017-18","column","twocol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/thesystem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/thesystem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/thesystem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/thesystem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3458"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/thesystem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/thesystem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/thesystem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/thesystem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/thesystem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}