SOC 203 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Transsexual, Natural Science, Gender Role
15 Dec 2015
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What does sex refer to: male and female biological difference based on genitalia, its a stable category. Since the vast majority of people fall, at least in external appearance -- into either the male or female group. What does gender refer to: it"s a social construction, set of behaviours/ characteristics assigned to each sex. Associated with masculinity and femininity: its not a stable category. Changes over time and varies over culture (cid:1) (cid:1) specific masculine and feminine behaviour are cultural and time. England during 1660 and 1670"s aristocratic men wore long wigs, makeup, bright, clothes, beautiful fabrics: everything today would be seen as effeminate, but they were seen as masculine at the time (cid:1) (cid:1) Gender identity identifying with being a gender definition of being male or female sense of being male or female which children acquire by age 3 (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1)
