Gender and Society

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This paper discusses gender theories and the way in which gender attitudes begin at birth and are constantly reconstructed by societal expectations. The paper discusses the possibility of changing gender attitudes, however concedes that society would need to be restructured without these beliefs, and that that is highly unlikely.

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"Gender and Society Society has created a world in which people consider gender foremost in their lives. Judith Lorber contends that in every element of the social order society constructs expectations for people based on gender beliefs, and that without thought society conforms to these ideas, creating a continuous cycle of a world that is based on gender theories (13). Parents begin the cycle of gender attitudes that are the product of societal thought. While these gender beliefs may be varied depending on the country that has created them, they remain with men and women throughout the duration of their lives. Many contend that changing gender attitudes can be accomplished within the social order, and yet, these same theorists acknowledge that in order to change gender beliefs society would have to be restructured without gender ideas to alter the foundation that currently exists in life."

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