WGS160Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Ma Vie En Rose, Doreen Kimura, Caster Semenya
4 Dec 2013
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Women in science backed by one who should know. The 5 laws of a bi-polar sex/gender system. Recalls what happened when he was female. Stanford neurologist explained that the gender binary and prejudice plays a much bigger role in university campuses. Said because there was so many sex differences we should not see equal numbers of engineers because that"s the way it naturally is. Gender diversity and cross-gendered behaviours appear to be as old as humanity. Sex the categories or male and female and the biological characteristics of bodies placed in these categories (biological) Gender the assignment of masculine and feminine characteristics to bodies categorized as male or female (social) Sex can also be socially constructed, through surgery for example. Social constructionist: tells us that gender is a fluid construct. Drag describes the discontinuities between gender and sex or appearance and reality but refuses to allow this disfunctionality to represent dysfunction.
