ANTHROP 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Secondary Sex Characteristic, Third Gender, Male Prostitution
10 Jun 2016
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Differences between skulls of females and males indicators of sex. Pelvis is the most reliable indicator of biological sex differences related to childbearing. Primary sex characteristics reproductive organs: ovaries, testes, etc. Secondary sex characteristics physical differences not directly related to reproduction: male facial hair, female breasts, etc. Cultural category culturally constructed (what is considered normal varies between different cultures) Transgender persons whose gender identity, gender expression, or behaviour does not conform to their sex assigned at birth. Surgery to make biological bodies more conformant to their gender identity: gender-queer. Identify themselves as more than just male or female somewhere between male/female. People who experience themselves as both male and female or neither. Vast majority of transgender identities: gender non-conforming. May or may not identify as being transgender: intersexed. Variation in biological sex characteristics neither male nor female. Represents an intermediate status that is neither female nor male.
