PSY354H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Magnus Hirschfeld, Sex Assignment, Reward System
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The word gender reflects to a collection of cognitive, behavioural and general personality traits. One group tends to share more in common with other. These traits seem to define differences between the tradition notion of sexes. Although we think gender and sex to be one and the same, they"re really not. Sexuality is influences by the interaction of biological, psychological, social, economic, political, cultural, ethical, legal, historical, religious, and spiritual factors. He thought that womens bodies were made from spare parts and thought that the woman"s womb had a lot of extra space around it and thought it could wander. He said that when it wander"s it causes sensations that make women go crazy and coined the term hysteria by galen. An entire field of medicine was devoted to treating hysteria. It was thought to be a disease cause by sexual deprivation. Produced symptoms such as anxiety, loss of appetite, insomnia, fainting spells, fantasies, discharge, violence.