Gender norms under patriarchy
Assignment Instructions: Consider how Gender norms under patriarchy shape what both Paddy the Baddy and Chernik share. Linking to specific examples from the lecture, Chernik and Paddy, describe how gender norms are shaping a mental health crisis. Also, consider how the experiences of LBGTQ folks fit into this discussion.
Linking to the Taylor reading and the lecture, discuss postpartum depression as something other than an issue associated with “hormones”. What social factors and gender norms play a role in depression among new mothers AND, how might we go about addressing this issue outside of a medical model and medication?
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Hey everybody, uh, welcome to a lecture about gender.
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I\’m having an issue with my screen here.
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Hold on, I\’m gonna talk fast because I have a whole bunch to tell you and I don\’t want you to have to listen to me talk for too long, so I\’ll just figure I\’ll just go fast.
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So, umm, just a reminder that when we talk about things like gender and race as it connects to mental health and illness, we always talk about how it\’s socially constructed.
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As sociologists, it\’s really impossible to separate out how culture and patriarchy, things like that shape our ideas about how men and women should behave.
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So we want to be connecting throughout to how these things are socially constructed.
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So we\’re going to do a little work around that, do a little sort of basic sociology, but also connect to mental health and illness as well.
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So we like to ask how do structural forces help us to understand what we know about things?
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That\’s how a sociologist does their work, right?
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What are the economic and political pieces?
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A structural or a sociological analysis was going to move beyond what we sort of take for granted as normal.
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And as I mentioned, many cultures don\’t even know what this is.
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The condition doesn\’t even exist.
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So this body dysmorphic disorder is completely embedded in a cultural context, not to not to in any way to suggest that it isn\’t real or that women don\’t suffer horribly and even die from this, only to say that we also need to pay attention to how gender norms shape this and how they hurt women in this way.
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You\’re going to read a very short piece from a woman who experienced anorexia that\’s actually very powerful.
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All right, last slide, I promise this is new to the DSM.
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This is a, in the DSM 5, it\’s a diagnostic category that\’s meant to describe the distress that might be experienced by trans folks as they negotiate social norms that assume that an individual\’s sex must be in accordance with their gender.
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Remember those different terms?
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So there was a shift from DSM 4 where gender identity disorder, that was the language used and basically described trans folks as disordered or pathological.
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And so DSM 5 was meant to be an improvement.
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So the language shifted a bit to make it about distress that trans folks feel based on how the world treats them, which is, I don\’t know, kind of progress in a weird way, but still considered a pathology.
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More evidence of the DSM is socially constructed though that changes are are included in there based on what\’s happening in society, connected to advocacy, political motivations, and pressure from of course, intersectional feminists and and feminist psychiatry.
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A reminder that these categories are not scientific, but deeply politicized.
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So that said, the newer, softer language around gender dysphoria for trans folks used in the DSM still constructs trans folks as medical objects.
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All right, goodness.
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I\’m no doubt you are over listening to me talk.
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I\’m over talking.
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The big message in this lecture is that gender socializing under patriarchy has serious implications.
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A serious So what?
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And so your job this week is to connect some of this to the readings.
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Each of your authors are challenging these kinds of patriarchal gender norms, linking to how we define and label somebody as mentally ill, looking at the social condition versus individual.
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Short company, Cummings.
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So all right, OK, you\’re rock stars for hanging in there with me.
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