Sociology 2239 Lecture Notes - Marxist Feminism, Socialist Feminism, Radical Feminism
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Sex: defined by biological traits; reproductive organs: biological classification of an individual as male or female. Gender: socially constructed differences: social definitions and expectations associated with being masculine or feminine. Binary sex-gender system: sex assignment (biological) gender role (perform masculine, feminine for acceptance; doing gender) orientation (geared to heterosexism to create a nuclear family) If you don"t follow this norm, you can be sanctioned. The way we identify between sex is a socially constructed notion ex. Intersex: clitoris has to be smaller than 0. 9 cm and penis has to be bigger than 2. 5 cm; xxy or xyy. Gender is: a process embedded in context. Not fixed, changes over time and place between cultures. Occurs in human interactions, not a vacuum: perform gender, a system of stratification. Hierarchal of relations: ex. men paid more for same tasks, a structure. A system, institutionalized in schools, media, discourses.
