unit6TowardsaGenderFreeSociety大学英语课件.pptVIP

Towards a Gender Free Society 1 The world is sharply divided into masculine and feminine, because that is the way we believe it should be. We hold this unwavering belief and take considerable effort to keep this division. From the time a child is born, he or she is expected to meet stereotypes—boys are portrayed as boisterous and disruptive, girls conform to the expectations when they are sweet and docile. People become the product of their biology. Their social roles and identity are predetermined by their permanent identifying attribute “sex”. Males are the producers of cool reasoning and are capable of being leaders. “Emotional” is seen to be the characteristic of women and their place is at home. 2 However, no one feels sure that certain natural that exist between man and woman are relevant to the distinctions between male and female excellence and a different expectation of their social qualities. Such uncertainty denotes a rejection of such concepts as “gender appropriate” and “stereotyped sex roles” which are only social norms invented by man, imposed on man, but rest their logic nowhere. The grounds on which the idea of single sex schools might be defended are cut from under our feet. 3 The aim of education is to stimulate impulses, encourage free thinking and boldness in thought and keep alive various interests. But the single sex school by following the simple uniform structure and prescribing a separate curriculum for males and females does anything but this. Instead of being provided with a rich expansion of experience, students are only accessible to a segment of knowledge. Such a form of education interferes with individual freedom and entails a loss of autonomy of self-determinism. If a boy enjoys sewing, I see no reason why he should be barred from needles and thread. If a girl wants to attempt baseball, she should not be punished for “deviance”. But at a very early stage, a single-sex school kills the possibility for a vigorous youth to grow and