ANT 112 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Cross-Dressing, Pansexuality, Situational Sexual Behavior
22 Jan 2018
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Gender role: social and cultural roles normative for men and women. Gender identity: sense of oneself being a man or a woman. Gender expression: masculine or feminine traits, behaviors, or cultural signifiers. Sexed body: biological, anatomical structures of male and female. Sexual orientation/ preference: heterosexuality, homosexuality, bisexuality, asexuality, pansexuality, polysexuality, etc. Sexual identity: straight, gay, lesbian, bisexual, queer, polyamorous, asexual. Ideas about gender change over time and space: ideals of masculinity and femininity have changed throughout history and across different cultures. If it changes over time it is a cultural construct. Not just gender as nurture over nature only. Gender is distinct from sex, not always based on sexed body. Everywhere in the world women occupy a different status from men: Nowhere in the world do women have power over men. Female infanticide: first born must be male. Purdah: veiling, modesty to protect family"s dignity from male gaze. Honor killing: kill woman to protect family from dishonor.
