SOC100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Jon Gray, Bimbo, Sigmund Freud
13 May 2016
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Sex: biological distinction between females and males (genitalia, hormones) Gender: feelings, attitudes, desires, and behaviours associated with a particular sexual category . Gender role behaviors that conforms to widely shared expectations about how members of a particular sexual category are supposed to act. Gender identity- a person"s sense of belonging to a particular sexual category. Sexuality a person"s capacity for erotic experiences and expressions. Rosy the riveter 2nd world war woman in the workforce. Over simplified beliefs about how men and women, by virtue of their physical sex, possess different personality traits, behave differently and experience the world differently. Transgendered small minority of people whose gender identity does not match the sex assigned to them at birth. Transsexual transgendered individuals who feel they have been born in the wrong body ; change their appearance and sometimes, have sex-change operations. Two spirit people: men who dress like women and so women"s work (or vice versa)
