Download or read book Gender in the Mirror written by Diana T. Meyers and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2002 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In patriarchal cultures, people internalize cultural gender imagery that enshrines procreative heterosexuality and relations of domination and subordination between men and women. Once internalized, i.e. embedded in people's cognitive and emotional infrastructure, this imagery shapes, though it does not determine individual identity.