SSCI 1300U Lecture 5: Lecture 5- gender relations
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Practice questions: racialization prefers to the bodies and identities of people who are not white. Two differently positioned groups people at the top (white people, french), and the others are not; unequally positioned groups based on race and class. In practice, rarely do we use all of the indicators to define sex. The assignment of sex is a social practice. By not attending to the social process involved in the assignment of sex we ignore the variation that exists within and between the categories of male" and female": bodies still matter! Sex is a determination made through the application of socially agreed upon biological criteria for classifying persons as male or female (west and zimmerman, 1987, p. 127) There are more than two categories when it comes to our sex. Male intersex (genitals aren"t clearly defined) female. There"s an order between these two categories. Assumption that males will turn into men, and females will turn into women.
