SOC 603 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Caster Semenya, Cross-Dressing, Nba Coach Of The Year Award
4 Dec 2013
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Language ( gender neutral described in books as they to describe one person) Education: women write admissions exams first time (1877) attend lectures (1884) Before that they couldn"t make wills buy property. Married women not allowed in public service until 1955. Homosexuality illegal in 70/ 195 nations, decriminalized in canada 1967. Sports/"athletics 1928 women accepted into olympics canada tea. We rely on gender sterotypes ( fixed sex categories) as tools to help us take mental shortcuts: selective processing. Examples: women and men"s height: study of photographs. Study of job tittle and gender: katherine and kenneth anderson. Won world 800 metre championship race in berlin. Internal testes (male sexual organ ) which produce testosterone and can generate muscle mass, body hair and deep voice. Biologically, many gradations from male to female: a continuum. Inter sexual bodies: mix of female and male traits. Lack of fit among genitals gina"s and or chromosomes. True hermaphrodides(hermes) possess one testis and one ovary.
