ANT101H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Hippie, Teenage Rebellion, Grip Strength
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Gender: male and female appears natural and what we are born with {but it is not} Human males are averagely known to be taller, heavier skeletons, more muscle, greater grip strength, proportionally large hearts, greater aerobic work capacity. Differences are founded in the caveman times: men go out and hunt while women stay at home and clean. We focus on the categories of male and female and the meaning of these categories. The role that these categories enable us to play in our society. What it means to be a male/female varies drastically around the globe. Sex and gender are two different categories in an anthropolog: margaret mead, coming of age in samoa (1928) Sex provides the basis foundation of what makes male and female. Male and female were cultural, not natural products. There is nothing particular about how a female become grown women. The project of decentralization: sex and gender in the 1960"s-1980"s.
