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Discuss Karin A. Martin's theory on becoming a gendered body and how it relates to our idea of 'gender construction'.

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Hi and thank you for using Brainmass. This particular study is of great interest to myself especially since in my own postgraduate study on gender and identity, we have had to review Martin's methods and data to come to understand the notion of 'gender construction'. You are essentially asking here what the social problem being investigated is. I understand that it can get quite confusing when we are made to determine a social problem in a sociological research. But remember that sociological research problems are not always 'social ills or social issues', they can be about a specific social phenomenon (something that occurs in society) wherein the researcher has sought out to investigate it so that it can ...

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