ANTH101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Krishna, Gender Binary, Ojibwe Language
6 Jan 2018
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Wide world between phenotypic observation and genetic realities. What us culture thinks sex is: we tend to con ate sex, gender roles, gender and sexual expression to produce gender and sexual stereotypes. Therefore, if sex is biological then so too are the other categories: we tend to think of sex as binary, male or female: Therefore, we tend to think gender roles, gender and sexual expression and the stereotypes are binary, xed and immutable. Sex refers to biological differences: from a biological perspective, sex is determined by three primary factors, genitalia referring broadly to external sexual organs within a species. Sexual dimorphism: marked differences in male and female biology besides breasts. Secondary sex traits: stature, body hair, voice range: gonads essentially the internal sexual organs that produce different sets of hormones. Testes in males, and ovaries in females: chromosome patterns. Human males have one x and one y chromosomes. Fausto-sterling identi ed three major groups of intersexuals: chromosomal combinations.
