SOC 2104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Femininity, Intersex, Centrality

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 2104
• Professor: Adolphine Y.Aggor- Boateng

Document Summary

Which areas of your life would you need to rethink as part of breaking down this binary: fausto-sterling"s article was originally published in 1990. A quarter of a century later, occurrences of ambiguous genitalia are now collected under the umbrella terms dsd (disorders of sexual development) and medical professionals are moving away from conducting survival interventions to correct ambiguous genitalia in newborns. Different definitions of masculinity and femininity in different cultures. Different expressions of aggression and violence despite similarities (anatomically). Margaret mead: sex differences are learned, not biological, and are self-perpetuating (south. Meads findings challenged strict cultural gender norms in the us. For instance, what is a mores in american culture is not in other cultures. Femininity and masculinity are not the basis for organization of personality difference (e. g. new guinea). Criticisms: criticized for cultural determinism: belief that the cultures in which we are raised determine our character, personalities, and behaviors, misinterpretation of cultures.