SOCIAL GENDER STEREOTYPES AND THEIR IMPLICATIONS IN HINDI

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Autor(a) principal: Pande, Anjali
Data de Publicação: 2019
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.34630/polissema.vi6.3323
Resumo: This essay looks at the subtle ways in which gender identities are constructed and reinforced in India through social norms of language use. Language itself becomes a medium for perpetuating gender stereotypes, forcing its speakers to confirm to socially defined gender roles. Using examples from a classroom discussion about a film, this essay will highlight the underlying rigid male-female stereotypes in Indian society with their more obvious expressions in language. For the urban woman in India globalisation meant increased economic equality and exposure to changed lifestyles. On an individual level it also meant redefining gender relations and changing the hierarchy in man-woman relationships. With the economic independence there is a heightened sense of liberation in all spheres of social life, a confidence to fuzz the rigid boundaries of gender roles. With the new films and media celebrating this liberated woman, who is ready to assert her sexual needs, who is ready to explode those long held notions of morality, one would expect that the changes are not just superficial. But as it soon became obvious in the course of a classroom discussion about relationships and stereotypes related to age, the surface changes can not become part of the common vocabulary, for the obvious reason that there is still a vast gap between the screen image of this new woman and the ground reality. Social considerations define the limits of this assertiveness of women, whereas men are happy to be liberal within the larger frame of social sanctions. The educated urban woman in India speaks in favour of change and the educated urban male supports her, but one just needs to scratch the surface to see the time tested formulae of gender roles firmly in place. The way the urban woman happily balances this emerging promise of independence with her gendered social identity, makes it necessary to rethink some aspects of looking at gender in a gradually changing, traditional society like India.
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spelling SOCIAL GENDER STEREOTYPES AND THEIR IMPLICATIONS IN HINDIGéneroÍndiaEstereótipoLínguaSala de AulaGenderIndiaStereotypeLanguageClassroomThis essay looks at the subtle ways in which gender identities are constructed and reinforced in India through social norms of language use. Language itself becomes a medium for perpetuating gender stereotypes, forcing its speakers to confirm to socially defined gender roles. Using examples from a classroom discussion about a film, this essay will highlight the underlying rigid male-female stereotypes in Indian society with their more obvious expressions in language. For the urban woman in India globalisation meant increased economic equality and exposure to changed lifestyles. On an individual level it also meant redefining gender relations and changing the hierarchy in man-woman relationships. With the economic independence there is a heightened sense of liberation in all spheres of social life, a confidence to fuzz the rigid boundaries of gender roles. With the new films and media celebrating this liberated woman, who is ready to assert her sexual needs, who is ready to explode those long held notions of morality, one would expect that the changes are not just superficial. But as it soon became obvious in the course of a classroom discussion about relationships and stereotypes related to age, the surface changes can not become part of the common vocabulary, for the obvious reason that there is still a vast gap between the screen image of this new woman and the ground reality. Social considerations define the limits of this assertiveness of women, whereas men are happy to be liberal within the larger frame of social sanctions. The educated urban woman in India speaks in favour of change and the educated urban male supports her, but one just needs to scratch the surface to see the time tested formulae of gender roles firmly in place. The way the urban woman happily balances this emerging promise of independence with her gendered social identity, makes it necessary to rethink some aspects of looking at gender in a gradually changing, traditional society like India.Instituto Superior de Contabilidade e Administração do Porto2019-08-21info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttps://doi.org/10.34630/polissema.vi6.3323https://doi.org/10.34630/polissema.vi6.3323POLISSEMA – ISCAP Journal of Letters; No. 6 (2006)POLISSEMA – Revista de Letras do ISCAP; Núm. 6 (2006)POLISSEMA; No 6 (2006)POLISSEMA – Revista de Letras do ISCAP; N.º 6 (2006)2184-710X1645-1937reponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAPenghttps://parc.ipp.pt/index.php/Polissema/article/view/3323https://parc.ipp.pt/index.php/Polissema/article/view/3323/1307Direitos de Autor (c) 2006 POLISSEMA – Revista de Letras do ISCAPinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessPande, Anjali2024-02-01T20:18:01Zoai:oai.parc.ipp.pt:article/3323Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireopendoar:71602024-03-19T16:00:58.905335Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse
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title SOCIAL GENDER STEREOTYPES AND THEIR IMPLICATIONS IN HINDI
spellingShingle SOCIAL GENDER STEREOTYPES AND THEIR IMPLICATIONS IN HINDI
Pande, Anjali
Género
Índia
Estereótipo
Língua
Sala de Aula
Gender
India
Stereotype
Language
Classroom
title_short SOCIAL GENDER STEREOTYPES AND THEIR IMPLICATIONS IN HINDI
title_full SOCIAL GENDER STEREOTYPES AND THEIR IMPLICATIONS IN HINDI
title_fullStr SOCIAL GENDER STEREOTYPES AND THEIR IMPLICATIONS IN HINDI
title_full_unstemmed SOCIAL GENDER STEREOTYPES AND THEIR IMPLICATIONS IN HINDI
title_sort SOCIAL GENDER STEREOTYPES AND THEIR IMPLICATIONS IN HINDI
author Pande, Anjali
author_facet Pande, Anjali
author_role author
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Pande, Anjali
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Género
Índia
Estereótipo
Língua
Sala de Aula
Gender
India
Stereotype
Language
Classroom
topic Género
Índia
Estereótipo
Língua
Sala de Aula
Gender
India
Stereotype
Language
Classroom
description This essay looks at the subtle ways in which gender identities are constructed and reinforced in India through social norms of language use. Language itself becomes a medium for perpetuating gender stereotypes, forcing its speakers to confirm to socially defined gender roles. Using examples from a classroom discussion about a film, this essay will highlight the underlying rigid male-female stereotypes in Indian society with their more obvious expressions in language. For the urban woman in India globalisation meant increased economic equality and exposure to changed lifestyles. On an individual level it also meant redefining gender relations and changing the hierarchy in man-woman relationships. With the economic independence there is a heightened sense of liberation in all spheres of social life, a confidence to fuzz the rigid boundaries of gender roles. With the new films and media celebrating this liberated woman, who is ready to assert her sexual needs, who is ready to explode those long held notions of morality, one would expect that the changes are not just superficial. But as it soon became obvious in the course of a classroom discussion about relationships and stereotypes related to age, the surface changes can not become part of the common vocabulary, for the obvious reason that there is still a vast gap between the screen image of this new woman and the ground reality. Social considerations define the limits of this assertiveness of women, whereas men are happy to be liberal within the larger frame of social sanctions. The educated urban woman in India speaks in favour of change and the educated urban male supports her, but one just needs to scratch the surface to see the time tested formulae of gender roles firmly in place. The way the urban woman happily balances this emerging promise of independence with her gendered social identity, makes it necessary to rethink some aspects of looking at gender in a gradually changing, traditional society like India.
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