WGS160Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Two-Spirit, Eurocentrism, The North West Company
13 Oct 2017
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Intersex people (without any medical intervention) society"s definitions of male/female characteristics conform to their idea of what normal bodies should look like. Develop primary or secondary sex characteristics that do not fit neatly into. Many are mutilated in infancy and early childhood by doctors to make their sex. Are relatively common, although society denies of their existence. An old medical terms describing intersex people. Intersex activists who use this phrase to describe their bodies because the ambiguity is with the society"s definition of male and female rather than their bodies. Another: describe a gender outside of man/woman binary. Another: describe the condition of having no gender or multiple genders. Another: people who perform genders or deliberately play within/on gender as well as being gender deviant in other ways. Refers to native american genders that they could not neatly classify into the. Is not adequate to encompass to the full spectrum of gender sexuality.
