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Problem

I. What was your initial reaction to this child's behavior? What is important is that parents discuss gender roles with their young children, or is gender a topic better left for later in life? How do parents consider gender norms when buying their children books, movies, and toys?

II. Pick one of how the gender binary is challenged discussed in the PowerPoint (slides 5 and 6), or pick one that you know wasn't discussed and do a short investigation on it. What is the history of this group? What symbolic elements of identity are essential to this group? How do they challenge the gender binary? What sort of inequalities have these groups faced? etc.

III. To examine the concept of intersectionality, make a list of the five important aspects of what it means to you to be 'gendered,' including how you think, whom you interact with and how, what you wear, what you do or don't do and so on. For each time on the list, does this aspect of what it means to you to be gendered apply to every social location in your society? In other words, do you think any items on your list are universal (true to everyone in that gender category, everywhere, and in every period), or are they all specific to your particular culture, period, and social background? Are they true for people in different racial groups, different social classes, different sexualities, or different nationalities?