SOC 656 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Born Naked, Gender Binary, Georg Simmel
20 Jan 2016
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Description of topic and how you will research it (1-2 paragraphs) Simmel fashion as tension between individuals and conform. Gender cultural aspect to sex, construction, sex and gender do not always match up. Gender binary strict categories between male and female. Newborns are colour coded as male or female with hello kitty blankets in chinese hospital. Alberta couple, twin boys, accident in circumcision, one had his penis cut off . So the doctors told parents to raise as a girl, brenda. Married, had reconstruction surgery, later wife left and committed suicide. Gender and identity are related but not same. Gender stratification cuts across all aspects of social life cuts all social classes, and refers to men and women"s unequal access to power prestige and property as the basis of their sex. Males in our society have crude benefits, unequal distribution of wealth and power between men and women.
