WSTA01H3 Chapter 10: Chapter 10 Study Guide

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20 Oct 2010

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UTSC

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Women's and Gender Studies

Course

WSTA01H3

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Victoria Tahmasebi

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Chapter 10 Study Guide

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x Sex: described by the biology of an individual; anatomy, hormones and physiology(92)

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was thought to be fixed, unvarying and static- much like sex (92)

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certain things, their actions are categorized into being expressions of masculine and

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feature due to social interactions. As well, gender is what creates a division in society

Perspectives on sex and gender

x Gender is something that can be seen as being predicted from the reproductive functions

of men and women (93)

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psychological, behavioural, and social consequences (93) ± biological determinism

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roles and reduces its explanatory usefulness in discussions of power and

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Gender Display

x when humans interact with one another in their environment they assume that the other

will display natural signs which can categorically be placed under feminity or masculinity

(94)

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established correlates of sex (whether in consequence of biology or learning), then gender

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Nature: Biological Basis of Behavior

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