This article explains David Reimer’s story. His parents decided to raise him as a girl after his circumcision operation went awry. I chose this article because it provides a good example for the nature vs. nurture debate.
This photograph is appropriate for this chapter because it illustrates how gender identity has a strong effect on how people feel about their appearance. The text states that during adolescence, girls compare their bodies to others more than boys do and girls report having lower self-esteem by this time as well.
This is a funny gender conformity experiment used to demonstrate whether people conform to their gender role instead of their given gender. At the end of the video, it says that 27 out of 35 people conformed to the gender role.
This site examines the nature vs. nurture debate on the levels of IQ and personality traits. It also explains the moral considerations as well as philosophical considerations associated with this debate.
This may be a very beneficial sight to women who are looking to explore feminism and what kind of role it plays in the world. It also provides links to websites relevant to feminism and Women's Studies.
"Which contributes more to the area of a rectangle, its length or its width?"
- Donald Hebb
Psychologist Donald Hebb’s answer when asked which contributes more to a person’s growth, nature or nurture, stating that both can have equal effect on personality traits. I agree with Hebb and discovered through last week's discussion that although nurture may have more of an influence in my own life, nature has a role as well.
Gender may be one of the most important chapters in the textbook, when discussing. Gender can be a very controversial and touchy subject and can consist of a number of largely debated topics; homosexuality and feminism being two of the most significant. Although I have strong opinions when it comes to homosexuality, I chose to focus my attention on male and female identity. Like people of different races or ethnicity, women now have almost all of the same opportunities as men.
However, statistics prove that males have a higher median income than women. Men who earn a professional degree of some sort make almost $100,000 a year compared to women who make merely $65,000 per year. Nevertheless, it has been proven that women have a bigger role in society now than they did when the feminist movement began in the United States in 1910.
Gender may be one of the most important chapters in the textbook, when discussing. Gender can be a very controversial and touchy subject and can consist of a number of largely debated topics; homosexuality and feminism being two of the most significant. Although I have strong opinions when it comes to homosexuality, I chose to focus my attention on male and female identity. Like people of different races or ethnicity, women now have almost all of the same opportunities as men.
However, statistics prove that males have a higher median income than women. Men who earn a professional degree of some sort make almost $100,000 a year compared to women who make merely $65,000 per year. Nevertheless, it has been proven that women have a bigger role in society now than they did when the feminist movement began in the United States in 1910.
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