Becoming Familiar with Gilligan’s and Belenky et al’s Works: What are Their Implications for Pedagogy? (original) (raw)
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2020
The boy child is an endangered species. Indeed we live in a parochial society, but this has nonetheless blinded popular attentions to the constant threats that has plunged his existence. Everything he has or possesses came to him at a price, even so the society that is assumed to serve as an asylum is in itself the cankerworm. Scholars couldn’t be more right to say he is going into extinction. Interestingly, the field of gender studies have had tremendous inputs on research and findings that deliberately focuses on the female child when determining the impact of neglect and abuse of children. But little attention has often been paid to the boy child and the consistent challenges he faces. Since the origin of gender studies in the 1960s and 1970s, when the women liberation movement began to call for attention on the inclusiveness of the XX chromosome. There has been a resurgent effect, leading to the first and second wave of theorizing concepts of a new world (gender) order. In the 1980s, systematically, there followed a new found research point pre-eminently focusing on the female child. Since this time however, focus in the field of gender has shifted dramatically to focus more on the women, particularly in this respect—the female child and unintentionally neglecting the problems and challenges of the male child, thus, hampering awareness for the problems he faces, and blinded against his developmental disabilities. In this book, I intend to interrogate the challenges of the male child as a means to an end, also for the safety of the female child by deriving a multi-sectorial approach, through research and findings, mostly beaming from his moment of conception in the womb, to his birth, the developmental stages, and then rounding it up on its future impact as an adult while considering these influences through biological, socio-cultural and ecological lenses— the impacts of these influences on the male child and thereafter recommending plausible solutions to the problems and challenges he faces.
Chapter 6: Gender and Individualism
In this chapter, and the following one, a number of theoretical approaches which examine how individuals conceptualise and construct their sense of self and identity are reviewed alongside the participants' own interpretations of their collages. This chapter begins by outlining the work of Anthony Giddens which establishes how individuals living in late modern Western societies shape and understand their selfidentity and reflexively create an ongoing narrative of the self. Therefore, the chapter moves on to look at how these narratives of the self were formulated and articulated by participants in terms of their gendered identities. In relation to masculinity concepts of 'hegemonic masculinity' and 'policing masculinity' are explored as well as research which identifies that a range of masculinities exist, and considered through the male participants' discussions of 'active' masculinity and sport. The chapter then turns to a variety of studies that highlight the notion of femininity as performance and evaluates more recent debates about the impact of 'girl power' discourse on girls'
8 Changes and Reproduction in the Struggle for Masculine Status
FROM VIOLENCE TO CARING
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This paper aims to challenge the assumption of the law's impartiality to gender. Gendered identity is constructed and confined by social discourse, and is expressed through homogenizing binary gender norms which prescribe the ‘appropriate’ means of gender performance. The definition of the ‘feminine’ role expected of women is given by men, who in a patriarchal modern society are the dominant gender. I will examine what ‘performativity’ means in terms of gender discourse, and analyse how exclusionary this can be for the gender dysphoric and the transsexual. I will look at the relevant legislation for allowing them legal acknowledgement of their acquired gender, and provide commentary on its ineffectiveness because it perpetuates the gender binary dichotomy. Pursuant to this, I will deconstruct how girls become ‘feminine’; a learning process which crystallizes in childhood rather than any innately biological attributes they may have. I will consider how society responds to deviance from these gender-appropriate norms with condemnation and pathology; none more demonstrably so than in the case of women who kill.
Big boys don't cry : reflections on nurture in male culture and education
2003
This project takes on the form of a personal narrative of my life experiences as a boy, man, teacher, parent, and husband. My focus is on nurture in the male culture as it relates to a man's experience in our society. The process of intense self-reflection necessary in creating a narrative project of this type is, in itself, part of a personal defining or redefining of myself. I believe that going through such an exercise can be a very valuable teaching tool for anyone seeking to change or improve his or her life. From a teaching perspective I believe this is especially important as teaching is, or should be, a very personal experience that relies on much more than technical skill. In many respects, I believe that who we are is how we teach. This project examines male nurture from within four primary topic areas. These are: Male Suppression of Pain; Male Sensuality and Nurture; Fathers and Nurture; and Nurture and Male Teaching. Through the discussion of this issue through these...
Men, masculinity and'gender in development
Gender and development, 1997
This article focuses on the implications of recent work in feminist theory, and on questions of masculinity, stressing the need to take account of the complex and variable nature of gender identities, and to work with men on exploring the constraints of dominant models of masculinity.