Blind to sameness : sexpectations and the social construction of male and female bodies /

What is the role of the senses in how we understand the world? Cognitive sociology has long addressed the way we perceive or imagine boundaries in our ordinary lives, but Asia Friedman pushes this question further still. How, she asks, did we come to blind ourselves to sex sameness?Drawing on more t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Friedman, Asia
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2013.
Temas:
Sex differences (Psychology) > Social aspects.
Sex differences > Social aspects.
Sex recognition (Zoology) > Social aspects.
Body image > Social aspects.
Perception > Social aspects.
Social perception.
Transgender people > Interviews.
Blind > Interviews.
Différences entre sexes (Psychologie) > Aspect social.
Différences entre sexes > Aspect social.
Reconnaissance sexuelle (Zoologie) > Aspect social.
Image du corps > Aspect social.
Perception > Aspect social.
Perception sociale.
Transgenres > Entretiens.
Personnes aveugles > Entretiens.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Gender Studies.
Blind
Body image > Social aspects
Perception > Social aspects
Sex differences (Psychology) > Social aspects
Sex differences > Social aspects
Social perception
Transgender people
Geschlecht
Geschlechtsunterschied
Geschlechtsidentität
Soziale Wahrnehmung
Interpersonale Wahrnehmung
Transsexualität
Interviews
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Toward a sociology of perception
  • Expectations, selective attention, and social construction
  • Filter analysis
  • Selective perception and the social construction of sex
  • Sexpectations and socio-mental control
  • Sex difference as a social filter
  • Perception and the social construction of the body
  • Selective attention: what we actually see when we see sex
  • Transdar and transition: transgender "expert" knowledge of sex cues
  • The sound of sex
  • A sex cue can be anything (as long as it provides information about sex)
  • Cognitive distortions in seeing sex
  • Polarization
  • Blind to sameness
  • Transgender narratives and the filter of transition
  • A blind phenomenology of sexed bodies
  • Sex differences in proportion
  • Seeking sameness
  • Sex without polarization
  • Drawing textbooks: sameness despite polarization
  • Genitals, gonads, and genes
  • Sex sameness as a rhetorical strategy
  • Conclusion: excess, continua, and the flexible mind
  • Emphasizing excess
  • The sex/gender continuum
  • Cognitive flexibility
  • Appendix: methodological notes.

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