Question

Gender in a structural sense, is a primary way of signifying relationships of power. explain

Answer 1

Gender is a constitutive element of social relationships based on perceived differences between the sexes. This involves four interrelated elements:Culturally available symbols that evoke multiple (and often contradictory) representations (Eve and Mary as symbols of woman for example)Normative concepts that set forth interpretations of the meanings of the symbols, that attempt to limit and contain their metaphoric possibilities.  These concepts are expressed in religious, educational, scientific, legal, and political doctrines and typically the the form of a fixed binary opposition, categorically and unequivocally asserting the meaning of male and female, masculine and feminine.Gender is not restricted to just the household, kinship systems, or a “separate, private” sphere.  Gender organizations affect kinship, labor markets, education, and the polity. Gender is constructed through kinship, but not exclusively; it is constructed as well in the economy and the polity, which in our society at least, now operate largely independently of kinship.Identity is subjective. Gendered identities are substantively constructed and relate their findings to a range of activities, social organizations, and historically specific cultural representations.