PSYC 250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Intersex, Sexual Differentiation, Femininity
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The behavioural, psychological, and social characteristics associated with being biologically male or female. The male and female sex glands- ovaries and testes. Medical term referring to conditions that can lead to atypical chromosomal, gonadal, or anatomical sexual development. A child with gonads (testes or ovaries) of one sex but ambiguous external genitalia. Referred to as a disorder of sexual development. Sexual differentiation begins a week or two later: is initiated by the sex chromosomes. Control at least four important aspects of sexual development: the internal sexual organs, the external sex organs, the hormonal environment of the embryo, the sexual differentiation of the brain. Culturally defined ways of behaving seen as appropriate for males and females. Refers to the ideal cluster of traits that society attributes to each gender. The ideal cluster of traits that society attributes to males. The ideal cluster of traits that society attributes to females.
