Gender Through the Prism of Difference

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Gender Through the Prism of Difference

• Chapter Three Sexuality

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• Sexual Relations are they relation of pleasure
  and empowerment or danger and oppression?
  
• Why gender violence is associated with sexual
  relations?
  
• Feminists claim that sexual revolution freed men
  to objectify and exploit women more, rape,
  prostitution, and pornography
  
• Feminists also see sexuality as potential as
  danger and pleasure, oppression and empowerment
  
• Gender, race, culture, religion, and ethnicity
  all shape sexual experiences and attitudes
  
• Sexual double standard exist of prostitution, sex
  slavery of girls, for example sex trade of
  Thailand, the country in a growing world economy
  creates context for sex trafficking and sex trade
  
• Western male whose activities endanger the health
  and safety of Third World women weather he is a
  corporate executive or vacationing
  

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Gender Difference and Sexual Subjectivity

• Ideal Love monogamous dating, seeing each other
  casual relation. Boys do not carry baggages while
  girl wants ideal love and immerse themselves in
  romantic culture, enduring relation, and tie the
  knot (white picket fence)
• Boys are always encouraged, provokes insist on
  having sex and often girls are pressured into sex
  (more prevalent among the working class)
  
• To boys sex is subjective and agentic, for girls
  giving in to boys
  
• Boys feel more masculine and bond more with other
  males, while for girls sex is associated with
  fear, blames herself, and feel as is they have
  lost apart of themselves
• Fearing to say no girls feel they might lose
  their boyfriends, while if they say yes they are
  called sluts