ANTH101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Human Sexuality, Testicle, Latin American Culture

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH101
• Professor: Smiley- Robinson Karen

Document Summary

Wide world between phenotypic observation and genetic realities. We tend to conflate sex, gender roles, gender, and sexual expression to produce gender and sexual stereotypes: therefore, if sex is biological then so too are the other categories. Sex refers to biological differences; from biological perspective, sex is determined by. E(cid:448)e(cid:374) (cid:271)iologi(cid:272)al thi(cid:374)gs fall i(cid:374) a ra(cid:374)ge of (cid:449)hat is (cid:862)(cid:374)or(cid:373)al(cid:863) Boys and girls are made; we teach and reinforce how to be a girl and how to be a boy. Nature vs. culture: gender is culturally constructed, sexuality is biological (reproduction) and cultural (different practices) Organized culturally (power and gender stratification is important of who and how people can express themselves sexually) Wide range of interpretations of what sexual activity is. Sexuality complex range of desires, beliefs, and behaviors that are related to erotic physical contact, intimacy, and pleasure. Cultural rules (religious, morale, etc. ) that shapes understanding of sexuality. Chimpanzees & dolphins sex for fun.