SOC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Online Analytical Processing, Hegemonic Masculinity, Sex Verification In Sports
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1966 european championships: won two golds and a silver medal. 1967 klobukowska failed a gender test for the european cup competition: genetic mosaic of xx/xxy, banned from competing in professional sports. Caster semenya: south african runner, world champion and olympian, after her unexpected win at the 2009 world championships, the international association of. Athletics federations (iaaf) subjected semenya to gender testing. Leaked results purport that semenya is biologically intersex: allowed to return to racing. De ning terms: sex: biological characteristics dealing with sexual anatomy, gender: a social construct that consists of a set of social arrangements that are built around sex, sexuality: set of sexual feelings, desires, fantasies, behaviors, and emotions. It"s all about the pants : sex: what is in your pants, gender: what kind of pants you want to wear, sexuality: who you want taking your pants off. Isn"t it all just biology (sex): sex does not equal gender!
