The Changing Face Of Feminist Psychology Analysis

In the video of the Changing Face of Feminist Psychology, Naomi Weisstein wrote a paper that women were not valued in their experiences” the uselessness that present psychology with regard to women is simply a special case of the general conclusion” (Young, 2010). One account of sexism is Bernice Lott told her story about graduate studies and she recalls her meeting, and she said that the professor told her that she would be out of her studies. She would bear children. Another account sexism is from Florence Denmark she recalls her experience with her husband’s job. Florence Denmark’s job was placed on the lowest position because of her husband job of being a dentist.

The chapter review question one deals with sex and gender. Sex refers to

the biological characteristics related to the sex organs. Gender has to deal with human culture and socialization. How boys learn masculine body postures is in gender because of the socialization of how boys should learn to be rough and play tough. For example “ A friend showed me a photo of her 7 month old son, whom the photographer had posed with a football” (Maltlin, 3). How girls learn to be feminine is also gender because of human culture, and socialization. Girls learn to stand still and to be quiet. How hormones influence female and male fetus prior to birth that has to do with the sex provide to the fetus. The self-confidence between elderly males and females has to deal with gender and the socialization that the elderly men and women had. The development of puberty has to do with the sex characteristics that were assign to the fetus.
In conclusion sex and gender are often interchangeable, but it is psychological article do not mention it as two different concepts. Sex has to do with the organs and gender has to deal with the human culture and socialization.