CS203 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Postfeminism, Gender Studies, Communication Studies
25 May 2016
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Office hours: mondays 1 2 pm. Biological both have 23 pairs of chromosomes, warm blooded: male and female bodies differ. By sex i mean one"s supposed biological sex; by gender i mean the social and cultural adoption of behaviours, attitudes and perceptions of what is or is not appropriate for persons of a particular sex. (sawchuk, 2010, 47) There are differences among those beings we call men and women, but the differences themselves don"t contain a specific meaning . There is no natural" relation between anatomical equipment and what that equipment is supposed to mean (nealon and. Gender is a product of social conventions. One is not born, but rather, becomes a woman . Gender is not a fixed state of being: involves ongoing processes through which social meanings are attached to biological sex. How to read and send out messages to others. Nothing natural about gender identity erving goffman.
