ANTHR310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Gender Binary, Pickup Truck, Anthropomorphism
9 Sep 2016
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There is a physical way to define people and a cultural way to define people. Socially and culturally produced ideas about the differences between females and males in a particular society masa lees: this is a good starting point, but no a good ending point. According to this definition, only human beings can be gendered: excludes anything like toys, technology, etc. Definitions can be limiting of ideas, they provide an end point and end a conversation: something that can be defined means that no one will seek to redefine something with new ideas. Based on a society"s interpretation of physical sex differences that a society or group assumes distinguish females or males . Gender is socially constructed characteristics; it is not an innate property of individuals . For people who experience something, it becomes real: race, religion, etc, these things are real because there are compellingly real as it gets in someone"s life.
