ANTHROP 1AA3 Final: Gender Identity - Anthro
3 May 2017
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Examples of gender markers: clothes, colors, hairstyle, activities, body language, occupation, behaviour. Gender identity: how people internalize attitudes and expectations, transgender - persons whose gender identity, gender expression or behaviour does not conform to their sex assigned at birth. Intersexed - not male or female, may be assigned to one or another, or remain ambiguous: multigendered - third sex, two-spirit - a defined third gender, not just other Third gender: e. g. the sworn virgins of albania, they can gain the political and social rights of a man by living as a male, represents an imitate status that is not male or female. Legal status as men, can revert to male status if they choose marriage. So, what does this mean: framed in interim states and dispositions, brazil: i. e. trapped in the body of the other sex, no desire to become women, they are enhanced men, crazy to want to be a woman.
