[lbo-talk] Social determination of Gender?

[brad bauerly]

Are any of the editors parents?  It seems self evident to me that my
daughter's gender is being produced when ever people try to take away her
toy trains and shove barbie dolls in her face, comment on how pretty that
dress makes her look, or make comments when I take her to the grocery store
about how it must be a special day out with daddy.  However, my partner
being in the neurological sciences also thinks most of it is biological.  So
I too would like to see some of the more recent work on this (her argument
is always that she has seen the differences in the brains on fMRIs, like
brain development couldn't be altered by socialization).

Brad


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> List: help me out?
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> A friend of mine is trying to make a television programme about gender. She
> wants to show that the ways that boys and girls are raised shapes their
> gender.
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> The brick wall she is up against is that all the commissioning editors are
> convinced that the evidence is in on this question and we 'now know' that
> gender is biologically determined (then they mumble something about
> socio-biology etc etc).
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> She has to find some experts that say that gender is substantially
> determined by socialisation.
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> I thought that she ought to look at sociologists, and feminist ones, rather
> than psychologists.
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> Does anyone have any good references to academic papers, preferably recent,
> or better still, know some academics who are hot on this.
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