In the article by Rosemary, (2003), the author says that the role of women traditionally revolved around motherhood although the trend is currently changing.Alison, (1997) talks of human biology and how feminism is depicted through biological differences. Essentially is because of biological differences that women do things differently from men including spending much time on their body.Andrea and Nancy, (1994) talks of male masculinity and how men conduct themselves showing their authority which is essentially doing gender. Ron and Peter, (2001) talks of noncustodial father and how they are difficulty in dealing with even when they need help a fact that shows masculinity and gender doing.
Gender is done to us and for us to the expectations of the society and the differences in bringing up a boy and a girl. Girls are expected to depi
...ct their feminism while boy their masculinity (Alison 1997). Even when they clearly need help, men may ignore any resistance because of how gender has been done to us (Andrea and Nancy, 1994 and Ron and Peter, 2001).
The social construction of gender is oppressive in a number of ways. Because of the expectations of the society, men are expected to be strong even when they are afflicted and desire aid (Ron and Peter, 2001). Women have no freedom to choose their desires and when they decide to be childless they are not taken to be normal. Such is oppressive and need to be mitigated by changing thesocial perspective of the society members on gender.
Gender and culture are relevant to this process of transformation as they have great influence on masculinity and feminism (Andrea and Nancy, 1994) andRosemary Gillespie, 2003).Men and wome
are expected to behave in certain ways by different traditional culture, the new perspective advocates for a new transformation where for example gender roles are mitigated and both men and women treated equally a fact that brings about theconflict.
A wider framework for conceptualizing gender can help one to be a wider scholar and practitioner as one will be able to realize that although feminism and masculinity are biological stipulations, they are greatly provoked which makes them more of nurtured traits than biological, having this in mind will help one make sound decisions regarding gender.
References
- Rosemary Gillespie. (2003). CHILDFREE AND FEMININE; Identity of Voluntarily Childless Women Understanding the Gender.University of Portsmouth. Pg. 122-136
- Alison M .Jaggar. (1997). Human Biology in Feminist Theory: Sexual Equality Reconsidered. Humanities Press International, Inc. pg. 1-6.
- Andrea Cornwall and Nancy Lindisfarne. (1994). Dislocating masculinity. Routledge. Pg. 1-16.
- Ron Lehr and Peter MacMillan. (2001). The Psychological and Emotional Impact of Divorce: The Noncustodial Fathers’ Perspective.Families International, Inc. 373- 383.
