SOCIOL 3U03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Sexual Identity, Pedophilia

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Conceptually, sex=biological and gender=social (what you identify as) Want to separate the social assumptions of gender from your biological sex. Cultural expectations around women and men are not necessarily determined by the biological reality between female and male bodies. We use social conceptions/criteria when the biological is a gray area. That makes you less of a man, therefore we should turn you into a man. Its still mostly surgery today to help" intersex children. Issue of body hair, if we look it as a biological characteristic of maleness and femaleness, we wouldn"t have an entire industry dedicated to shaving for women (because its not acceptable for women to have hair) Women turning to surgical procedures to remove hair for the purpose of fitting acceptable social norms surrounding gender. Acceptable and expected for men to have leg, arm, chest, pubic and facial hair. Sociologists try to emphasize that gender isn"t something that exists only within an individuals body.

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