SOC 3306 Lecture 5: Week 5
13 Feb 2018
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Soc 3306: social structures & relations between the sexes. Week 5: monday, september 2 & wednesday, september 4, 2017. Girls: girls are assigned sex at birth because they have everything required (ascribed status) for maturity and reproduction, development is natural. Influence of cosmetic surgery on miss venezuela pageant. All miss venezuela pageants had undergone cosmetic surgery. Health reforms and a free health-care system for redistribution of. Impact on women (some men) and family welfare. Importation of western cosmetic surgery standards: transformation of venezuela"s notion of ideal beauty, overrepresentation of female clients, notion of deformation of the body through motherhood, which requires reconstruction. Hinduism: can interchange male and female qualities, transform sex and gender and adopt alternative sex roles. Insights: fluid sexual identity, pluralistic religion without any cognitive dissonance, uphold gender divisions in islam. Indian citizenship act was inherited from britain at independence and still affect indians: hijras use political participation as a means of reasserting their position in society.
