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Sex and gender are two very similar, but different things. "Sex focuses on the biological, genetic, and physiological features of people.. and gender characterizes the behavioral (changeable/evolving) characteristics that we define as masculine and feminine." Since gender is seen as changeable and evolving, the definition is also changeable. Gender was not a word that was really used until the 1960s. The history of gender and coining the term will be discussed a long with comparing it to the way gender is used in present day.

The definition of gender was not always clear and was not fully termed until the 1970's. For example, in 1960’s gender was solely used to refer to the feminine and masculine words in French and Spanish. For example, le is masculine in French and la was coined as feminine. This was equivalent in the Spanish language[2]. However, during the 1970’s individuals tried to argue that women were unable to become pilots because of the sex differences and hormone fluctuation. People tried to use this monthly hormonal change in women to solidify the idea that women were less than men. To be able to tell the difference between biological differences from the socially constructed and physiological differences feminists coined the term gender.” This then disabled people from trying to use the biological and sex differences in order to support their claim that women were less than men.

Present day, gender is everywhere in the sense that it is almost in our genes. Because gender is evolving, there is more to it than referring to feminine and masculine terms in the French and Spanish language. The support for gender construction is the assignment of sex based on what they genitals look like at the time of birth. A majority of people believe that sex and gender are binary, meaning there are only two options and the social constructionist view rejects this claim. Most people used to believe that sex is binary, but that is wrong because it is excluding intersex. “the Intersex Society of North America defines intersex as a general term used for a variety of conditions in which a person is born with a reproductive or sexual anatomy that doesn’t seem to fit the typical definitions of female or male." This helps support the idea that sex and gender are not binary, and this needs to be acknowledged in order to include more people. “Although biological differences are fixed, gender differences are fixed, gender differences are the oppressive results of social interventions that dictate how women and men should behave." Gender is now more oppressive than it used to be because claiming that there are two genders does not include those who do not fit into the categories. Because the gender norms are set, many people are being marginalized.

Launius, Christie, and Holly Hassel. Threshold Concepts in Women's and Gender Studies Ways of Seeing, Thinking, and Knowing. Taylor and Francis, 2018.

Mikkola, M. (2017, October 25). Feminist Perspectives on Sex and Gender. Retrieved from https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/feminism-gender/

Lorber, J. (2018). The social construction of gender. Newbury Park, CA: Sage.

Peer Review 10.28.2018

'''I will be adding more information to the section titled "policy victories" According to one of the scholarly sources I have chosen for myself titled "Sisterhood Questioned" by Bolt Christine The strategies of the AWSA group was to push ratification of enough women suffrage amendments to get congress to approve an amendment for the right to vote. Women had no legal rights to vote however, after California had become successful by gaining triumphs for the right to vote at a state level: Kansas, Oregon, and Arizona had approved women suffrage in 1912. Furthermore from a short reading titled "Defining Movements Women's Suffrage" by Jeff Hill shortly after the 3 states had gained triumph Women in fifteen states enjoyed the right to vote by the end of the 1910's. By women finally gaining women suffrage in some area's it helped women believe again that they could all eventually have the right to vote all around even after being denied again and again. [1]'''

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'''I will be adding more information to the section titled "policy victories" According to one of the scholarly sources I have chosen for myself titled "Sisterhood Questioned" by Bolt Christine The strategies of the AWSA group was to push ratification of enough women suffrage amendments to get congress to approve an amendment for the right to vote. Women had no legal rights to vote however, after California had become successful by gaining triumphs for the right to vote at a state level: Kansas, Oregon, and Arizona had approved women suffrage in 1912. Furthermore from a short reading titled "Defining Movements Women's Suffrage" by Jeff Hill shortly after the 3 states had gained triumph Women in fifteen states enjoyed the right to vote by the end of the 1910's. By women finally gaining women suffrage in some area's it helped women believe again that they could all eventually have the right to vote all around even after being denied again and again. [1]'''
 * 1) Hill,     Jeff. Defining Moments Women's Suffrage (illustrated     ed.). Omnigraphics, Incorporated, 2006. p. 207. ISBN 0780807766, 9780780807761 Check |isbn= value: invalid     character (help).
 * 2) Bolt,     Christine (June 20, 2004). Sisterhood Questioned (1 ed.).     Routledge. p. 273. ISBN 0415158532


 * 1) Does the draft draw conclusions or try to convince the reader to accept one particular point of view?
 * 2) No, this is informative and does not make me feel like I have to accept a point of view.
 * 3) Are there any words or phrases that don't feel neutral?
 * 4) No, this rough draft has good flow.
 * 5) Does the draft make claims on behalf of unnamed groups or people?
 * 6) No, all the groups and people that make statements are given and the citations are also given.
 * 7) Does the draft focus too much on negative or positive information?
 * 8) This more so focuses on the rights and policies and when they rights were given.
 * 9) Are there any unsourced statements in the draft, or statements that you can't find stated in the references?
 * 10) No, the draft is sourced in the draft

First Draft 10.21.2018

The historic meaning of gender, ultimately derived from Latin genus, was of "kind" or "variety". By the 20th century, this meaning was obsolete, and the only formal use of gender was in grammar. This changed in the early 1970s when the work of John Money, particularly the popular college textbook Man & Woman, Boy & Girl, was embraced by feminist theory. This meaning of gender is now prevalent in the social sciences, although in many other contexts, gender includes sex or replaces it. Gender was first only used in languages to describe the feminine and masculine words, up until around the 1960's.


 * I will be adding to the history section of gender because I feel like there should be more of a background on how the term gender came up and how it used to be used.

Rough draft paragraph

"Western society's values legitimate gendering by claiming that it all comes from physiology- female and male procreative differences. But gender and sex are not equivalent" hen people realized that gender and sex were not the same they started to give more meaning to the word gender. Feminists started focusing on defining the word gender so that people could differentiate biological differences from social and physiological ones. Psychologists are the ones that really used gender with that meaning. Before this, gender was only used to refer to the feminine and masculine words in French and Spanish. For example, le is masculine in French and la was coined as feminine. This was equivalent in the Spanish language.

Mikkola, M. (2017, October 25). Feminist Perspectives on Sex and Gender. Retrieved from https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/feminism-gender/

Lorber, J. (2018). The social construction of gender. Newbury Park, CA: Sage.

Article Evaluation 9.30.2018

Sex and gender distinction

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/feminism-gender/

Article Evaluation 9.23.2018
 * Is the article's content relevant to the topic? Are some areas under- or over-developed?
 * The content is relevant to the topic. Section "criticism" is kind of underdeveloped considering it only has one sentence and does not explain why Jemima Repo criticized usage of the term gender. The history section also seems a little under- developed along with the "Transgender and genderqueer" section. Could have a little more information but it does include a link to the main articles, that you could get more information from if you wish to.
 * Is it written neutrally?
 * Yes, this article appears to be neutrally written. I like how they give more than one definition for sex and gender, so the reader can see that there are different definitions for the same thing. It is very informative and does not make me feel like I am being pushed towards one side. In the gender section it acknowledges that some people do view sex in certain ways, and then gives their information.
 * Does each claim have a citation? Are the citations reliable?
 * Yes most claims have a citation and I like how there are sub links to other articles if you still want more information on something written within the article

Abortion- rights movement Evaluating the content: - This article was very good in explaining the rights of abortion mostly in England and the United States. The content in the article was relevant to the title and was very good as summarizing abortion rights. - Going into this article I did not really know anything about abortion rights, so this was a good start in getting the general idea of abortion rights. - The only thing that I could see to be added was a little more information on why people were against abortion and more about the guidelines that women had to follow in order to get an abortion. This was a good article as a starter because it was not overloaded with too much information

Evaluating the tone: - The tone was good in that it was not making me feel like I had to change my view on abortions. It was an informational text that informed the reader on how abortion rights have progressed throughout the years and what factors played a role in changing the rights. - Was impressed that the author of this text was able to talk about the abortion- rights in more countries other than just sticking to the United States. This is good because in class we talk about how race and different factors also cause oppression.

Evaluating the sources: - Clicked on three different links and they were reliable sources that supported the text. - One of the websites was neutral in the fact that it was giving statistics about people that are for abortions, and people that are against abortions - Although, the terminology section of the cite said that additional citation was needed to verify