Learning To Be Gendered: An Analysis Of Gender Dichotomy

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In “ Learning to be Gendered” authors Penelope Eckert and Sally McConnell-Ginet both argue that being a man or a women is more than a sexual organ it's the way society and parents have taught you what male and female should be.This is shown when the authors state “thus the dichotomy of male and female is ground upon which we build shelves from the moment of birth.(737)”In this quote the authors urge whether the separation or contrast between men and women dependent on the way they are taught to be from birth.The authors insist that society begins to gender you from birth.According to the authors society does this when as soon as the child is born in the “hospital nurseries provide pink caps for girls and blue caps for boys.(737)”In other words

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