ANT102H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Margaret Mead, Marilyn Strathern, Don Kulick
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Gender: male and female, margaret mead, coming of age in samoa (1928, sex and gender in the 1960s and 1980s, ann meigs & marilyn strathern, don kulick on transgendered brazilian prositutes, conclusions. It appears natural that men do natural things and women do womanly things. It seems to follow anatomi- cal makeups, and the differences between them. We are who we are as gendered beings. Categories of male and female are the products of culture and society. These differences are not meaningful; these are differences that we decide as a group, culture, society. There are many animal species where it is almost impossible to tell the difference between male and female; lab rats, pigeons, etc. Humans are sexually di- morphic/different; there are marked physical differences that are more or less observable. These differences between us are found at the population level; when you look at most humans, this is the case.
