ANTHROP 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Travesti, Personal Grooming, Hijra (South Asia)
7 Apr 2016
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Sex biological (what you are born with) Gender learned (each society will teach a group their social expectations) Gender construct: a set of cultural assumptions about gender roles and values, relations between the genders that people learn as members of their society. Attributes associated with gender: (based on stereotypes: masculine: stoic, provider, visual-spatial, competitive, strong, feminine: emotional, nurturing, verbal, passive, weak. *sex doesn"t always equal gender (corresponding gender concepts) Third gender: e. g. , sworn virgins of albania, separates social being from the biological body, represents an intermediate status that is neither male nor female, women who take a vow of chastity and take on male roles. Hijras: gujarat india, men who wear female clothing, and ideally renounce sexual desire and practice by undergoing a physical emasculation known as the nirvana or rebirth operation. Toronto international film festival: cannes film festival queer palm award, tiff best canadian film, shift in gender relations.
