GEN&WS 103 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Labia Majora, Urethral Sponge, Urinary Tract Infection

• School: UW-Madison
• Department: Gender and Womens Studies
• Course: GEN&WS 103
• Professor: Jenny Higgins

Document Summary

Frameworks for thinking about sex gender, and anatomy: sex. : biological differences between male and bodies and female bodies (chromosomes, genitals, external and internal anatomy) Sex is the body itself: gender. : social and cultural meaning attached to biological sex. Clothing, meaning, and everything on top of that. Example: dress, shave arm pits show=meaning of a women. Difference between salary deals with gender differences. How we live, not how we are born: a person"s sex and gender may differ, lets try to separate body parts from gender. Not all people with vulvas identify as women. Not all women menstruate: female-bodied people . Or: assigned female at birth ; people with vulvas, people who give birth, etc. Grow at puberty and shrink at menopause: labia minora (inside, thinner stretches of tissue within labia majora, job is to protect: fold around and protect vagina and urethra, extend within labia majora on each side. Join above the clitoris (forming hood, or prepuce)