The Social Construction Of Gender For Hispanic American Woman
You must temporarily suspend your preconceived beliefs about the gender status of this group. The task now is to look for examples of how your group/your group’s gender is socially constructed. Specifically, you need to find two examples per week, for the weeks of Feb 19, Feb 26, Mar 5, and Mar 19 (in total, you will need at least eightexamples). For each week, your examples must come from the theme of our class that week. So for Feb 19, we are focusing on “Learning and Doing Gender.” For this week, please find examples from the kinds of things the reading and lecture for that week talk about for how your group’s gender is constructed. For Feb 26, “Buying and Selling Gender,” please find examples from the kinds of things the reading and lecture for that week talk about for how your group’s gender is constructed. For Mar 5, “Gender and Work,” please find examples from the kinds of things the reading and lecture for that week talk about for how your group’s gender is constructed. Finally, for Mar 19, “Gender and Intimate Relationships,” please find examples from the kinds of things the reading and lecture for that week talk about for how your group’s gender is constructed. For each week, you will bring your examples to class as part of your worksheet for that week. We will further work with your examples in class. Specifically in Essay II, you must situate your examples within the scholarly research on the social construction of gender for your group by doing the following:
1) Find at least 3 scholarly sourceson the social construction of gender for your group and describe what these sources have to say about it (make sure you provide a bibliography of your sources and properly cite them, using ASA format provided just below this assignment.
2) Describe each example and how you think it constructs gender for your group. Are there any patterns (things you see again and again) in how the gender of your group is constructed in your examples? Clearly describe these patterns.
3) Based on the patterns you see, discuss whether your examples generally confirm what the scholarship says or not.
4) Based on your findings, do you believe the social construction of gender for your group is consistent with dominant norms of gender in the United States? If so, why? If not, why not? Be sureto consider the role played by the particular social location of your group (the particular race/ethnicity, class, culture, sexuality, etc) in this construction.
