PSYCH 1X03 Lecture Notes - Intersectionality, Two-Spirit, Thomas Theorem
17 Sep 2013
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Social construction of gender categories based on biological sex: 2. Sexual division of labour whereby specific tasks are allocated on the basis of sex: 3. Sex dimorphism: division of society into two categories. Gender: refers to femininity or masculinity these emerge from a more socio-cultural standpoint: how many genders, 1. Undifferentiated: berdache, navajo, mahu, hijras (watch short youtube clip 7:18, xanith, relationships between sex and gender (page 7 from your reading, 1. sex determines gender, 2 . Sex is arbitrary realted to gender: 3. sex infleuences gender, 1. biological determinism (biological sex determines masculinity or feminity, 2. social construcitonism(learned though social learning, 3. inter-actionist position(both work together to produce gender, alfred kinsey (1894-1956) Amercian biologist and professor of entomology and zoology. Founded in 1947 the institute for sex research at. Kinsey scale (0-6) where 0 is exclusively heterosexual and 6 is exclusively homosexual. Sexual behaviour of the human male (1948) Sexual behaviour of the human female (1953: lee ellis (1942-)
