Monday, August 31, 2009
Yikki's Gender Bio
As being the youngest in my family, I am the one who are being protected all the time. When I was in elementary school, my sister and I preferred playing girlish games like playing the barbies. I studied in a girls school later. I also started playing basketball. It made me become more musculine. As there was no boys in the school, girls had to do all the things including setting up booths in open day and moving heavy stuffs. Studied in a girls school made me felt that girls can do all the stuffs without boys. My parent divorced when I was in elementary school. My mom raised me and my sister by her own. She had to work in the daytime and took care me and my sister in the nighttime. She worked hard, but she is still a good mother caring about us. She did the housework, too. We do not even need a father to form a family, as my mom plays both mother and father's role. Both these experiences made me thinking about gender role is not important becasue what men can do, women can do.
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It is interesting that when you went to the all girls school, you became more "masculine." This strongly supports the theory of "doing gender." When you were in a coed school, you drifted towards the more girly activities because thats what the other girls were doing and it wouldn't have been as acceptable for you to go play with the boys. When the boys were taken out of the equation though, you were able to do things that you were really interested in, whether they were typically masculine or feminine. Your experience growing up with your mother completely supporting the family is similar to those described in the Nancy Lopez article. It isn't that you were raised with feminist ideology, it's just the structure of your upbringing allowed you to see just how much women can really do.
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