WGST 1808 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Rodent, Xyy Syndrome, Streptococcal Pharyngitis

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Women's and Gender Studies
• Course: WGST 1808
• Professor: Debra Graham

Document Summary

Last name as file name, submit as . doc. Objectives: overview of the relationships between concepts of sex and concepts of gender (binary, genderbread, mobius strip) Binary (either/or) oppositional model (standard story: anatomy is destiny, there are only two sexes/gender: male and female/masculine and feminine, the two-sex order is universal, a fact of nature; nurture is defined by nature. Essentialism: binary view that gender encompasses fixed biological (male/female) and psychological traits (masculine/feminine) that do not vary much among individuals or over time. Essentialism has been used to argue that capacities and traits are inborn and immutable. Cisgender (cis): cis is a label for individuals who have a match between the gender/sex they were assigned at birth, their bodies, and their personal identity. Cisgender is a perception of identity that allows for other identities including transgender, transsexual, and gender nonconformity. Human genome project, lead to pop culture headers which oversimplify and misunderstand science.