ANTH 331 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Pubic Hair, Sex Organ, Gender Role
23 Jan 2017
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Look like a more feminine male: turner syndrome born with only 45 chromosomes, they"re missing a sex chromosome. Can impair sex organ development at puberty: intersex individuals are born spriatically - not really a pattern to it. But there"s one exception we know of small remote village in dominican republic, where there is a physical inheritance of a third gender. Generally raised as girls, but develop male traits at puberty. Society has constructed 3rd gender with distinct gender roles attached to them to accommodate them: gender identity dictated by genitals. But in some places this is not how people are de ned as man/woman: occupation in polonesia, occupation is determining factor of gender. If you have a cross- gender occupation to your own, you"ll be considered the gender associated with that occupation: sometimes you occupy a third, fourth, sometimes fth gender category, ex.
