In today’s society, maintain gender order is something that seems to come naturally to all, even though some people may not be aware that is does. This order is how we put people in their place and maintain order in society. We are products of our social culture which shapes our gendered order or the way we associate characteristics to our gender. Not by biological orientations but from “exigencies of the social order” can we fully process the social construction of gender. We uphold our gendered order and others help us to do so. Carmen helps to establish and uphold the gendered order in the movie Real Women Have Curves by her objection to Ana’s leaving home. Because this is such a good example of gendered order, the choice of making it the focus of my essay is essential and brings up many points to the theory of gendered order that Judith Lorber speaks of in “The Social Construction of Gender.”
Ana is an Hispanic teenager from a predominately Latino community in Los......

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Title: Gender....Socially Constructed?
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Approximate Pages: 5 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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