HDFS 28000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Femininity, Masculinity, X Window System
21 Sep 2016
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Sex genetic, anatomic, and hormonal characteristics that define male or female. Definition of gender: gender socially constructed meanings associated with being male or female, masculinity. Gender: dichotomy or continuum : bem sex-role inventory degrees of masculinity, femininity, and androgyny. Sex typing = process by which society transmutes male and female into masculine and feminine: occurs as a product of society"s insistence on the functionality of the gender dichotomy and gender-related behaviors (bem, 1981) Sex-typing and children: girls and boys become feminine or masculine at a very early age, how does it happen, genes x environment.
