ANTHROP 2PA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Khanith
19 Feb 2015
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Third/supernumerary gender: sex (cid:224) biological, gender (cid:224)l earned, gender constructs: cultural assumptions about gender roles and values, relations between the genders that people learn as members of their society, fluent(cid:224)what may be appropriate in one society isn"t in another. Generation gaps: if you ask your grandma she may have different opinions on how a lady should act, how a man should talk etc: gender constructs are fluent, meaning that they are constantly changing, attributes associated with gender, females; emotional, nurturing, verbal, passive, weak, males; stoic, provider, visual spatial, competitive, strong, sex doesn"t equal gender (cid:224) sex gender, some people are born biologically one sex, but feel like they are more better represented by the other gender, males are born males, but think they can associate themselves with females more than males, third gender: separates social being from the biological body, represents and intermediate status that is neither male nor female.
