SOCIOL 1A06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Sex Reassignment Therapy, Vas Deferens, Drag King
25 Nov 2016
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Sex: biological understanding and dichotomous categories; focus on physiological differences: female. Sex organs: uterus, fallopian tubes, vagina, clitoris, labia: males: Hormonal: more androgens than estrogens + mih. Sex organs: epididymis, vas deferens, seminal vesicles, prostate, penis, scotum. Gender: social understanding and categories; focus on the social meanings attached to being male or female. How gender socialization constructs masculinity and femininity: sense of being male or female, how roles are consider appropriate for either gender. Gender identity: a sense of biological, psychological and social belonging to a particular sex. Gender roles: individuals learn to act in accordance with expectations about how members of their gender are supposed to behave: social edict to going to the bathroom, norms about crying in public. Self-esteem varies by gender and structural advantage: how you feel about yourself. Used gender as one of the independent variable to predict level of self esteem.
