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1. What does the author say about the differences between the ways mean and women use their bodies?
According to the author, Ruth P. Rubinstein, men use their bodies in a straight forward manner, they use it to manipulate, to show their strengths. Women have learned to use their bodies to show that they are delicate, soft and precious.

2. What is a gender script? How do these gender scripts function?
The gender script shows and identifies what expectations people have socially and appropriate behavior as it relates to sex/gender. The function is used to create two social categories, men and women.

3. What did Flugel say about clothes and sexuality? Do you agree? Justify your answer?
Flugel states that women use their fashion to make men want them for sex and that they can can be sexual and men's clothes are used to make women want them sexually. This is essential for the survival of the species because it makes sure that women and men get sexually excited with each other. I do not fully agree with this but I do see how it makes sense. We wear what we wear to look good to others, most of the time. And that is the basis of what Flugel is saying, we want to be attractive to the other sex, we want to be wanted. However I do not think that the survival of the human race depends on this, I'm sure men will want to have sex with women and vise versa no matter what we wear.

4. What did Laver say about the social spheres of men and women and dress? Do you agree? Explain.
Laver argues that there is a "hierarchy principle" to what men wear. What they wear puts them in a class system. On the other hand, women wear what we wear to make men want them sexually and therefore puts women in a status below men. I do not agree with what Laver argues. It is absurd to think that women are below men because of what we wear and is insulting to believe that all we want is to be wanted by men.

5. How is fashion "collective behavior"?
Fashion is a collective behavior because it is something that society as a whole follows and looks at. Trends become trends for that reason

6. What is the irony of fashion?
Even if you do not want to follow fashion or stand out, you are forced to, otherwise you stand out because you are not following the fashion trends of that time.