ANT E105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Heterosexuality, Sex Assignment, Bisexuality
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Gender studies: research into masculinity/femininity as flexible, complex, and historically and culturally constructed categories. Sex: the observable physical differences between males and females. Gender: the expectations of thought and behavior that each culture assigns to people of different sexes. Sexual dimorphism: the phenotypic differences between males and females of the same species. Cultural construction of gender: the ways humans learn to behave as a man or woman and to recognize behaviors as masculine/feminine within their cultural context. Gender performance: the way gender identity is expressed through action. Intersexual: an individual who is born with a combination of male and female genitalia, gonads, and/or chromosomes. Transgender: a gender identity or performance that does not fit with cultural norms related to one"s assigned sex at birth. Gender stratification: an unequal distribution of power and access to a group"s resources, opportunities, rights and privileges based on gender.
