BIOL 1001 Chapter : Chapter 5 Outline
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Margaret mead: masculine and feminine traits are patterned by culture, key findings in new guinea, arapesh: both sexes are expected to act in ways americans consider. Gender is a cultural construct: gender characteristics are the result of historical, economic, and political forces acting within each culture, concepts of masculine and feminine vary among culture, and change over time. Intersex: we think of 2 sexes, but not all fir neatly into one of those intersex: people born with reproductive organs, genitalia, and/or sex chromosomes that are not exclusively male or female. In the media: world athletic championships in berlin and international association of. Athletics, the controversy, semenya dropped out of the spotlight, considered leaving the sports: competed in 2012 olympics and carried the south african flash in the opening ceremonies. Transgender: people who cross over or occupy a culturally accepted intermediate position within a binary male- female gender construction this term is much more common with the lbgt community than intersex.
