HSCI 304 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Hamline University, Human Sexuality
25 Feb 2018
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Dominant gender schema: status quo (challenge it: sex is an intrinsic biological characteristic. Normally, there are two and only two sexes: male and female. Sexes are usually determined from visual inspection of genitalia. Sometimes sexes are determined on the basis of genetics: normally, all persons are either one sex or the other. No person can change sex without major medical intervention: genders are social manifestations of sexes. Normally, there are two and only two genders: men (boys) and women (girls). All males are first boys and then men. All females are first girls and then women: all persons are either one gender or the other. No person can change gender without changing sex: gender styles are culturally defined expressions of gender and sex. There are two main gender styles: masculinity and femininity. Most females are feminine women: many persons do not exactly fit their expected gender styles.
