ANTHROP 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Barhai, Male Prostitution, Third Gender
6 Sep 2017
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How people internalize attitudes and expectations (internal sense of being masculine/feminine/ other) Gender expression = how one communicates their gender identity to others (through gender markers) Transgender - persons whose gender identity, gender expression, or behaviour does not conform to their sex assigned at birth. Transvestite - wearing clothing associated with opposite sex. Transexual (gender identity is different than assigned biological sex) Gender-queer (gender falling outside binary constructs of man or women) Androgyne (experience both masculine and feminine or neither) Gender non-conforming (gender identity doesn"t conform to gender expectations) Intersex (chromosome/genitalia formation (sex characteristics) that don"t allow someone to be identi ed as strictly male or female) Multi-gendered (identify with two or even three genders) Separates social being/identity from the biological body. Represents an intermediate status that is neither male nor female. Sworn virgins of albania (women sworn to live as men - not enough men in family (men maintain power socially and politically)
