WMST 1000Y Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Secondary Sex Characteristic, Cisgender, Gender Identity
4 Apr 2016
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Brain sex, (1992) men are from mars women are from venus (1992), why men don"t listen and women cant read maps (2001), why men never remember and women never forget (2005), the female brain (2006) and the. Male (sex, beer, sports, sex, sex, more sex) The term was coined by the feminist psychologist, cordelia fine, in her critique of biologically determinist sex differences in science. Biological determinist sex differences studies are bad science. Innate sex differences are small but society makes them bigger. Transgender is a big umbrella words that includes all sorts of people who in one way or another defy another peoples expections of a gender. Transgender- denoting or relating to a person whose self- identity does not conform unambiguously to conventional notions of male or female gender. Cisgender- denoting or relating to a person whose self-identity conforms with the gender that corresponds to their biological sex; not transgender.
