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What do you understand by gender? How does it shape ‘male identity’?

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  • Stratification and Mobility

Gender is the set of socially constructed roles, traits and expectations that a society attaches to being male or female, while sex refers to anatomy (Ann Oakley, Sex, Gender and Society, 1972). Gender studies long focused only on women, but men are gendered too. Masculinity is learnt, ranked and policed, not simply inherited.

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