Blind to sameness sexpectations and the social construction of male and female bodies - Friedman, Asia. (Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2013)
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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Keywords: Sex differences (Psychology) -- Social aspects; Sex differences -- Social aspects; Sex recognition (Zoology) -- Social aspects; Body image -- Social aspects; Perception -- Social aspects; Social perception; Transgender people -- Interviews; Blind -- Interviews; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies; Electronic books