The Resource Blind to sameness : sexpectations and the social construction of male and female bodies, Asia Friedman
Blind to sameness : sexpectations and the social construction of male and female bodies, Asia Friedman
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- Summary
- What is the role of the senses in how we understand the world? Cognitive sociology has long addressed the way we perceive or imagine boundaries in our ordinary lives, but Asia Friedman pushes this question further still. How, she asks, did we come to blind ourselves to sex sameness?Drawing on more than sixty interviews with two decidedly different populations-the blind and the transgendered-Blind to Sameness answers provocative questions about the relationships between sex differences, biology, and visual perception. Both groups speak from unique perspectives that magnify
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource
- Contents
-
- Introduction
- Toward a sociology of perception
- Expectations, selective attention, and social construction
- Filter analysis
- Selective perception and the social construction of sex
- Sexpectations and socio-mental control
- Sex difference as a social filter
- Perception and the social construction of the body
- Selective attention: what we actually see when we see sex
- Transdar and transition: transgender "expert" knowledge of sex cues
- The sound of sex
- A sex cue can be anything (as long as it provides information about sex)
- Cognitive distortions in seeing sex
- Polarization
- Blind to sameness
- Transgender narratives and the filter of transition
- A blind phenomenology of sexed bodies
- Sex differences in proportion
- Seeking sameness
- Sex without polarization
- Drawing textbooks: sameness despite polarization
- Genitals, gonads, and genes
- Sex sameness as a rhetorical strategy
- Conclusion: excess, continua, and the flexible mind
- Emphasizing excess
- The sex/gender continuum
- Cognitive flexibility
- Appendix: methodological notes
- Isbn
- 9780226023779
- Label
- Blind to sameness : sexpectations and the social construction of male and female bodies
- Title
- Blind to sameness
- Title remainder
- sexpectations and the social construction of male and female bodies
- Statement of responsibility
- Asia Friedman
- Subject
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- Blind -- Interviews
- Body image -- Social aspects
- Body image -- Social aspects
- Geschlecht
- Geschlechtsidentität
- Geschlechtsunterschied
- Interpersonale Wahrnehmung
- Interviews
- Perception -- Social aspects
- Perception -- Social aspects
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Gender Studies
- Blind
- Sex differences (Psychology) -- Social aspects
- Sex differences -- Social aspects
- Sex differences -- Social aspects
- Sex recognition (Zoology) -- Social aspects
- Social perception
- Social perception
- Soziale Wahrnehmung
- Transgender people
- Transgender people -- Interviews
- Transsexualität
- Sex differences (Psychology) -- Social aspects
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- What is the role of the senses in how we understand the world? Cognitive sociology has long addressed the way we perceive or imagine boundaries in our ordinary lives, but Asia Friedman pushes this question further still. How, she asks, did we come to blind ourselves to sex sameness?Drawing on more than sixty interviews with two decidedly different populations-the blind and the transgendered-Blind to Sameness answers provocative questions about the relationships between sex differences, biology, and visual perception. Both groups speak from unique perspectives that magnify
- Cataloging source
- N$T
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Friedman, Asia
- Dewey number
- 305.3
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- BF692.2
- LC item number
- .F75 2013eb
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
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- dictionaries
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Sex differences (Psychology)
- Sex differences
- Sex recognition (Zoology)
- Body image
- Perception
- Social perception
- Transgender people
- Blind
- SOCIAL SCIENCE
- Blind
- Body image
- Perception
- Sex differences (Psychology)
- Sex differences
- Social perception
- Transgender people
- Geschlecht
- Geschlechtsunterschied
- Geschlechtsidentität
- Soziale Wahrnehmung
- Interpersonale Wahrnehmung
- Transsexualität
- Label
- Blind to sameness : sexpectations and the social construction of male and female bodies, Asia Friedman
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Introduction -- Toward a sociology of perception -- Expectations, selective attention, and social construction -- Filter analysis -- Selective perception and the social construction of sex -- Sexpectations and socio-mental control -- Sex difference as a social filter -- Perception and the social construction of the body -- Selective attention: what we actually see when we see sex -- Transdar and transition: transgender "expert" knowledge of sex cues -- The sound of sex -- A sex cue can be anything (as long as it provides information about sex) -- Cognitive distortions in seeing sex -- Polarization -- Blind to sameness -- Transgender narratives and the filter of transition -- A blind phenomenology of sexed bodies -- Sex differences in proportion -- Seeking sameness -- Sex without polarization -- Drawing textbooks: sameness despite polarization -- Genitals, gonads, and genes -- Sex sameness as a rhetorical strategy -- Conclusion: excess, continua, and the flexible mind -- Emphasizing excess -- The sex/gender continuum -- Cognitive flexibility -- Appendix: methodological notes
- Control code
- 849928765
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780226023779
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 1249432
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)849928765
- Label
- Blind to sameness : sexpectations and the social construction of male and female bodies, Asia Friedman
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Introduction -- Toward a sociology of perception -- Expectations, selective attention, and social construction -- Filter analysis -- Selective perception and the social construction of sex -- Sexpectations and socio-mental control -- Sex difference as a social filter -- Perception and the social construction of the body -- Selective attention: what we actually see when we see sex -- Transdar and transition: transgender "expert" knowledge of sex cues -- The sound of sex -- A sex cue can be anything (as long as it provides information about sex) -- Cognitive distortions in seeing sex -- Polarization -- Blind to sameness -- Transgender narratives and the filter of transition -- A blind phenomenology of sexed bodies -- Sex differences in proportion -- Seeking sameness -- Sex without polarization -- Drawing textbooks: sameness despite polarization -- Genitals, gonads, and genes -- Sex sameness as a rhetorical strategy -- Conclusion: excess, continua, and the flexible mind -- Emphasizing excess -- The sex/gender continuum -- Cognitive flexibility -- Appendix: methodological notes
- Control code
- 849928765
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780226023779
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 1249432
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)849928765
Subject
- Blind -- Interviews
- Body image -- Social aspects
- Body image -- Social aspects
- Geschlecht
- Geschlechtsidentität
- Geschlechtsunterschied
- Interpersonale Wahrnehmung
- Interviews
- Perception -- Social aspects
- Perception -- Social aspects
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Gender Studies
- Blind
- Sex differences (Psychology) -- Social aspects
- Sex differences -- Social aspects
- Sex differences -- Social aspects
- Sex recognition (Zoology) -- Social aspects
- Social perception
- Social perception
- Soziale Wahrnehmung
- Transgender people
- Transgender people -- Interviews
- Transsexualität
- Sex differences (Psychology) -- Social aspects
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