prescribed gender roles and attached stereotypes

NATURALISED GENDER ROLES AND ATTACHED

STEREOTYPES

COMPILED BY:- Alina Charaniya (74)

Ankita Gandhi (78)Indu Lekha (87)

Kriti Mathur (93)Swati Chauhan (132)

GENDER ROLES??

• Gender roles are cultural and personal. Meaning to say : they are not natural but are “naturalised”.

• They determine how males and females should think, speak, dress, and interact within the context of society.

• These roles are internalized and thus accepted by all of us across the globe.

• The question to ask- when does this internalization start??

When you first color a room pink or blue for your unborn baby, you start prescribing a certain set of characteristics to your child.

• In his essay “Toys”, a French literary theorist, talks of French Toys.

• These toys are essentially a microcosm of the adult world; reduced copies of human objects, “as if in the eyes of the public the child was, all told, nothing but a smaller man who must be supplied with objects of his own size”

• “The fact that French toys literally prefigure the world of adult functions obviously cannot but prepare the child to accept them all, by constituting for him, even before he can think about it, the alibi of a Nature which has at all times created soldiers, postmen and Vespas. ”

So what are

toys basically??

• An adult human beings aspiration to create miniature adults, our copies out of our children.

• A boy is always gifted a car, a gun, a soldier, a superhero, etc.

• A girl is always gifted a doll/ Barbie, a pony, etc.

THE WORLD THAT WE RAISE OUR CHILDREN IN.

THE WORLD THAT WE RAISE OUR CHILDREN IN.

Cultural roles and stereotypes

• Once the process of compartmentalizing is initiated it never stops, is met at every point in life.

• The society succumbs to and also expects men and women to behave in certain respective fashions.

THE NATURALIZED DIVISION OF LABOR

ASSOCIATING OCCUPATIONS WITH GENDER

OTHER COMMON STEREOTYPES ASSOCIATED WITH THE TWO GENDER

HOW THEY ARE EXPECTED TO REACT TO LOVE.

STEREOTYPES ATTACHED TO MEN

• Be a man…..

“kismat ki hai kadki, roti kapda aur ladki teeno hi papad belo to miley”

Men hear nothing except the language of sports

BOYS DON’T LIKE PINK- PINK IS GIRLY!!

STEREOTYPES ATTACHED TO WOMEN

WOMEN BELONG TO THE PRIVATE

WOMEN’S PLACE IS IN THE KITCHEN

WOMEN ARE BAD DRIVERS

WOMEN CAN’T EXCEL ACADEMICALLY, WOMEN DON’T NEED TO EITHER.

WOMEN SUCK AT MATHS

THE IRONY……

THE CULT OF MOTHERHOOD

PENIS ENVY

GENDER AND CHRISTIANITY

PARADISE LOST – JONATHAN SWIFT

• For contemplation he and valor formed,For softness she and sweet attractive grace;He for God only, she for God in him.His fair large front and eye sublime declar'd

Absolute rule;

GENDER AND HINDUISM

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