SOC 603 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Trans Woman, Gender Dysphoria, Gender Binary
13 Sep 2016
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Textbook: (kimmel) preface; chapters 1, 3 & 4. Its important to note that gender identity, biological sex, and sexual orientation are separate and you cannot assume how someone identifies in one category based on how they identify in another category. Sex are the biological traits that societies use to assign people into the category of either male or female, whether it be through a focus on chromosomes, genitalia or some other physical ascription. When people talk about the differences between men and women they are often drawing on sex on rigid ideas of biology. Gender is more fluid it may or may not depend upon biological traits. Gender involves social norms, attitudes and activities that society deems more appropriate for one sex over another. Gender is also determined by what an individual feels and does. The sociology of gender therefore examines how society influences our understandings and perception of differences between masculinity and femininity.
