TY  - BOOK
AU  - Friedman,Asia
TI  - Blind to sameness: sexpectations and the social construction of male and female bodies 
SN  - 9780226023779 (electronic bk.)
AV  - BF692.2 .F75 2013eb
U1  - 305.3 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Chicago, London
PB  - The University of Chicago Press
KW  - Sex differences (Psychology)
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Sex differences
KW  - Sex recognition (Zoology)
KW  - Body image
KW  - Perception
KW  - Social perception
KW  - Transgender people
KW  - Interviews
KW  - Blind
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
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