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Blind to sameness : sexpectations and the social construction of male and female bodies
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- Creator
- Asia Friedman
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- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2013
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- 1 online resource
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- ISBNs
- 9780226023779, 9780226023465, 9780226023632, 022602377X, 022602363X, 022602346X
- OCLC
- ocn849928765, ocn809911029
- 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