ANTHROP 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Clitoromegaly, Pansexuality, Congenital Disorder

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTHROP 1AA3
• Professor: Andrew Wade

Document Summary

Skeleton- difference between female and male skulls, tendency for males to be larger and more robust. Genital formation; we all have the same set of four tissues but differentiate due to gender. Aphalia (when two sections don"t develop at all) focus more on function of male genital in comparison to men. Clitoromegaly (reduce clitoris to an exceptable female range within our society) Hypospadia (typically assigned to the male sex- treated surgically to repair a birth defect) Hermaphroditism (having one ovary/one testes) or having male/female external genitalia. Kleinfelter"s syndrome (chromosomal intersex condition, xxy , typically develop male genitalia. 2 sexes not equal to 2 genders. Some may be well aligned with their sex, other"s not so much based on our society. Social factos affect expression (social acceptability of certain relationships) What are the differences in the ways the mwn and women are reprsented in.