ANTHROP 1AA3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 19-37: Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, Gender Equality, Double Burden
20 Sep 2016
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Sex: biological category females and males are born. Gender identity: how people internalize and enact those attitudes and expectations that are associated with their gender category. Gender construct: the set of cultural assumptions about gender roles and values and the relations between the genders that people learn as members of their societies (culturally constructed) The significant contrast in size and shape of pelvis, a critical factor in human evolution, first appeared about 2 million years ago. Males are assumed to have been the primary hunters, and therefore created the first known tools and weapons which differentiate us from other primates. Males shaped human culture, supplying women and children with necessary resources. Man the hunter was the key to human development that differentiates us from other primates. Gender as a social or cultural construct is a primary aspect of one"s personal and social identity. Cultural constructs: are models of behaviour and attitudes that a particular culture transmits to its members.
