ANTH 1001 Chapter 8: Chapter 8 - Gender
7 Dec 2015
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Gender studies research into the cultural construction of masculinity and femininity across cultures as flexible, complex, and historically and culturally constructed categories. Stereotypically consider to be natural male or female behaviour driven by biology might turn out, upon more careful inspection to be imposed by cultural expectations of how men and women should behave. Sex the observable physical difference b/w m/f especially biological expressions related to human reproduction. Gender expectations of thought and behaviour that each culture assigns to people of different sexes. Three primary factors have generally been considered in determining biological sex: genitalia, gonads, chromosome patterns. Sexual dimorphism phenotypic differences b/w m/f of the same species: among humans is far from absolute, human m/f bodies are much more similar than different. Knowing a person"s biological sex does not enable to predict what roles that person will play in given culture. Born biological sex, but we learn to be men and women.
