Gender

Explain the important concept doing gender in Judith Lorber's "'Night to His Day': The Social Construction of Gender." What is revealed by emphasizing the act of gendering?

Doing gender, according to Lorber, reveals the ongoing process of assigning gender codes to everyone we encounter. She notes the significance of babies wearing baseball caps, tiny earrings, flowered sneakers, and lace-trimmed socks as examples of "doing gender."

what is gender

Gender describes the characteristics that a society or culture delineates as masculine or feminine. So while your sex as male or female is a biological fact that is the same in any culture, what that sex means in terms of your gender role as a 'man' or a 'woman' in society can be quite different cross culturally.

What is important about seeing gender as a social institution?

Individuals are assigned sex at birth but not gendered, and they have to be taught to be masculine or feminine. Children learn to walk, talk, and gesture the way their social group says girls and boys should

According to Lorber, when do we usually notice gender signs and signals? What does this tell us about gender roles and expectations?

We usually notice these signs and signals when they change. This reveals that dominant views of gender always exist but are difficult to see.