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This 3 page paper provides an overview of Deborah Blum's article “The Gender Blur." This paper relates the views presented in Blum's work and considers the implications for educators. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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nurture debate, and theorists have considered whether the acquisition of gender roles relates to the forces of nature, those biological and inherited features, or the impacts of environment, including modeled
roles (Doyle & Paludi 4). Blum related the well-supported belief that gender roles extend from a combination of environmental and physiological/genetic elements, but she underemphasized the importance
of environmental factors that not only shape perceptions of gender, but relate specific gender-based roles that shape values placed on gender. While Blum attempted to balance off previous theories
about the social construction of gender with examples of how biology plays a substantial role in the combined process, she uses extreme examples that detract from the significance of environment
in shaping gender perceptions. Blum did not take the opposing view against the social construction of gender, but instead argued that there is a much larger biological component than
has previously been addressed. Blum related the impact of factors like testosterone levels and specific biological differences from birth as indicators of the impacts of biology. She
began by referencing specific behavioral manifestations of gender in her young son, suggesting that his favoring of carnivorous dinosaurs was a direct function of his gender identity, and that the
amplification of that already existing gender identity by social expectations would result in a more aggressive personality than if he had been born a girl. She later explained the
story of children in one Caribbean nation who frequently experienced a genetic defect that resulted in the failure to produce an enzyme that resulted in lower testosterone levels during fetal
development. The product of this defect was that children could be born with "undescended testes and a penis so short and stubby that it resembles an oversized clitoris" (Blum
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