Blind to Sameness Sexpectations and the Social Construction of Male and Female Bodies

Name: Blind to Sameness Sexpectations and the Social Construction of Male and Female Bodies
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ISBN: 9780226023632

ISBN-10: 022602363X

ISBN-13: 9780226023632

Edition: 2013

Authors: Asia Friedman

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What is the role of the senses in how we understand the world? Cognitive sociology has long addressed the way we perceive or imagine boundaries in our ordinary lives, but Asia Friedman pushes this question further still. How, she asks, did we come to blind ourselves to sex sameness?Drawing on more than sixty interviews with two decidedly different populations—the blind and the transgendered—Blind to Samenessanswers provocative questions about the relationships between sex differences, biology, and visual perception. Both groups speak from unique perspectives that magnify the social construction of dominant visual conceptions of sex, allowing Friedman to examine the visual construction of…

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List price: $31.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 7/15/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 0.60" wide x 0.91" long x 0.06" tall
Weight: 0.770
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Toward a Sociology of Perception


Expectations, Selective Attention, and Social Construction


Filter Analysis



Selective Perception and the Social Construction of Sex


Sexpectations and Sociomental Control


Sex Difference as a Social Filter


Perception and the Social Construction of the Body



Selective Attention-What We Actually See When We See Sex


Transdar and Transition: Transgender "Expert" Knowledge of Sex Cues


The Sound of Sex


A Sex Cue Can Be Anything (as Long as It Provides Information about Sex)


Cognitive Distortions in Seeing Sex


Polarization



Blind to Sameness


Transgender Narratives and the Filter of Transition


A Blind Phenomenology of Sexed Bodies


Sex Differences in Proportion



Seeking Sameness


Sex without Polarization


Drawing Textbooks: Sameness Despite Polarization


Genitals, Gonads, and Genes


Sex Sameness as a Rhetorical Strategy


Conclusion: Excess, Continua, and the Flexible Mind


Emphasizing Excess


The Sex/Gender Continuum


Cognitive Flexibility


Appendix: Methodological Notes


Notes


Bibliography


Index