GE2214 : Gender, Culture and Society

性別文化與性別社會

Gender, Culture and Society

• Explanations of gender differences

• Changes of gender roles and relationships in marriage and family

Gender, Culture and Society

• Gender ideologies: sexual roles, stereotypes, and power relationships

• Patriarchal privileges and rhetoric: women as half of heaven or hell?

Gender, Culture and Society

Gender, Culture and Society

• Body technology and politics: the shaping of masculinity, femininity and sexuality

• Sexuality and sexual identities: the politics of intimacy, love and sexual relationship

Gender, Culture and Society

• Gendered symbolism: study of images of women and men

Gender, Culture and Society• Gender inequality and feminism:

life chances and the sexual division of labour

Gender, Culture and Society

• Women: a genre of resistance?

• Women moving across borders

• Modern maids - institutionalized servitude

Are women becoming more like men and men more like women?