ENVS 1000 Lecture Notes - Pseudohermaphroditism, Quasi, Heteronormativity
31 Mar 2013
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Gender is a social construction that relates to biological characteristics of sex. Contestation in natural characteristics of ideas based on sex- e. g. male seahorses are impregnated instead of females. In nature, there are hermaphrodites (e. g. sponges), pseudo-hermaphrodites (e. g. garter snakes) and multiple genders (e. g. (e. g. garter snakes) and multiple genders (e. g. white-throated sparrows) They make the decision to be female or male based on environmental factors. In certain areas of the world, many farmers are women. One reason for this is because women do not have property rights. Eleanor of aquitaine- she had power in the 12th/13th century. She was married to the king of france and then married the king of england. She eventually became the head of a school of nuns. In this tradition, women had power if they were part of an aristocracy. It also depended on giving sons to men of power. Some women had their heads chopped off if they could not deliver sons.
