SOC 633 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Fallopian Tube, Ope, Scrotum

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 633
• Professor: Kelly Train

Document Summary

Is a performance: push up bras, makeup, clothing. Knowing your place as inferior: masculinity. Economic power: we live in a society that is controlled by binary opposites, masculinity and femininity change based on class, race, culture, etc, other types of gender. Genderqueer/fluid moving between different gender identities. Two-spirited indigenous, being both genders at the same time. Physiological: genitalia male or female but there are more! Intersexed: natural throughout the whole natural world (i. e. All worms are true hermaphrodites: true hermaphrodites have both male & female reproductive organs and genitalia, male hermaphrodites look female on the outside but has an xy chromosome interior testicles. No ovaries or uterus often unaware that they have male traits until puberty when they start to develop facial hair and other facial features. Everybody starts out life as a female!! 1st trimester which is why that is when the first ultrasound is had: female hermaphrodites. Ovaries, fallopian tubes, uterus, and a penis.