SOC275H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Dutee Chand, Hegemonic Masculinity, Gender Binary
5 Apr 2017
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Common explanations for gender difference: biological determinism (nature, biology is destine, behavior, thoughts and actions, differences in physiology, differential socialization (nurture) Questioning the sex binary: doctor said: comparing and placing them together, and an aversion for bodily labor, and an. Anne fausto-sterling & sexing the body: challenging the idea of two and only two sexes. Surgical intervention at birth and intersexual movement: clitoral & penile non-erect lengths at birth, cheryl chase, intersexual rights activist, speaking against the early age medical intervention. Intersex movement: she had a clitorectomy because hers fell outside the average size, don"t want our kids to be gay so that they don"t want them to be made fun of, 2-10% will produce a intersex offspring. Reproducing gender difference in daily life: from an early age we are expected to know where we fall in the gender binary. Beyond the (cid:498)opposite(cid:499) sex, or men are from mars, women are from venus.
