Lorber makes a keen observation when she states, “For human beings, there is no essential femaleness or maleness, femininity or masculinity, womanhood or manhood, but once gender is ascribed, the social order constructs and holds individuals to strongly gendered norms and expectations,” (Lorber, 1994, p. 41). Such norms and expectations center around and are organized by ideas of “sameness” and “difference…
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