SY101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Essentialism, Gender Binary, Genderqueer
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Lecture 12: gender & sexualities: sex, gender, video margaret cho, link: https://www. youtube. com/watch?v=srh4rkyrkvy. Sex: humans are divided into two distinct sexes on the basis of biological features (chromosomes, sex organs, hormones, etc. Ignores historical and cultural variability of gender and sex. Genderqueer people express either a combination of masculinity or felinity, or neither. Their gender disrupts the gender binary (sometimes referred to as androgyny): gender binary: gender categorized on the basis of two distinct opposite sexes: male = masculine and female = feminine. ii. ) Essentialists ignore the fact that gender differences are declining and in some cases have disappeared. iii. ) Research evidence used by essentialists is flawed iv. ) Essentialists generalize v. ) essentialists exaggerate the degree to which gender differences are unchangeable. vi. ) One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman. No biological, psychological, or economic fate determines the figure that the human female presents in society; it is civilization as a whole that produces this creature .
