University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Communication Culture and Gender Essay

Each answer should be 300-450 words

Sources: Wood, Julia T. and Natalie Fixmer-Oraiz (2017). Gendered Lives: Communication, Gender & Culture, twelfth edition, ISBN 9781305280274

1. The textbook Wood, Julia T. and Natalie Fixmer-Oraiz (2017). Gendered Lives: Communication, Gender & Culture, twelfth edition has emphasized this point: Gender is constructed. Explain what it means to say that gender is constructed. The response should define gender and describe how gender is constructed and how it is changed. You should discuss multiple theories and contexts and broad ideas as well as specific research findings that demonstrate how gender is constructed. The essay should identify a range of institutions and practices in cultural life that operate individually and collectively to construct gender. The response should address how viewing gender as constructed affects the possibilities of agency. Include specific examples of how gender is constructed, reproduced and changed, and highlight connections among concepts, contexts, and issues.

2. How would you define feminism now? Would you consider yourself a feminist? If so, in what ways and in which wave/movement would you place yourself? If not, why not? Your answer should pull from theories and perspectives we have considered over the course of the semester.