Title: Gender Ideology - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics
Headings: Gender Ideology
Gender Ideology
Social Movements and Gender
1.3 Gender and Framing Processes
Handbook of Income Distribution
12.6.3.1.3 Social Norms: Doing Gender and Identity
Social Welfare Policies and Gender
4 Gender and Explanations of Social Welfare Policies
Migration
The Impacts of Migration on Sending and Receiving Societies
Women in Buddhism
Women in Mahāyāna Buddhism
Extensive/Intensive Methods
Definitions
Viewing 21st Century Motherhood Through a Work-Family Lens
Negotiating between Work and Motherhood
Maternal and Paternal Employment, Effects of

Content: Similarly, some branches of the contemporary breast cancer movement frame women's commonalities in gender terms by connecting the experiences of breast cancer survivors to the societal emphasis on women's breasts as crucial to women's attractiveness to men. At the same time, such activists point out, the medical establishment has provided less funding and attention to breast cancer than to diseases that affect men more than women (Klawiter 1999 ). If gender symbolism plays an important role in the socially constructed solidarities that mobilize collective action, the development of gender solidarity is never automatic, even in women's movements. Analyzing African American women's autobiographies written before 1970, Brush ( 1999) shows that the messages that came from the civil rights movement encouraged them to interpret their grievances in terms of race rather than gender, while the women's movement made gender seem irrelevant to Black women's experiences. The tendency to see the generic ‘Black’ as male and the generic ‘woman’ as white shows that using gendered meanings to construct a group's commonalities can exclude some people, since deciding who ‘we’ are also entails deciding who ‘we’ are not (Collins 1990 ). Gender as a set of cultural beliefs and practices figures heavily into many of the identity movements that have swept the political landscape in recent years. In attempting to privilege white racial identity, the contemporary white supremacist movement not only presents a range of racial enemies but deploys gender metaphors—e.g., treating the Black male body as dangerous and animal-like and the white female body as always at risk and in need of protection—to appeal to the growing number of disillusioned white males who feel threatened by what they perceive to be the successes of social movements for gender and racial equality (Ferber 1998 ). Finally, gender symbolism and ideas about masculinity and femininity figure heavily in the modern gay and lesbian movement, which challenges the notion that women are feminine and men masculine and, further, that erotic attraction must be between two people of different sexes and genders (Gamson 1997 ). View chapter Purchase book
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