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This article focuses on the role of gender relations in contributing to social dynamic. According to the author, gender relations contribute to a social dynamic in the classroom based on male denial and female shame. Professor Julia Kristeva while teaching a sociocultural concepts course in a graduate social work program at a small private American women's college influenced author's views to a large extent. Her thought, along with the author's experience in the classroom, has been influential in the rethinking of the author's attitude to gendered relations. Julia Kristeva offers a philosophical point of view for considering how questioning norms and social dynamics impacts both the psychic life of individuals and the healthy expression of societies. As a theorist, analyst, and novelist, she is interested in the broadest social dynamics of change as well as in the psychic life of individuals. In addition to Kristeva, poststructural feminist theorists have helped people understand the fluidity of gender, gendered relations, and gender expectations.