ANT 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Sex Assignment, Sexual Orientation, Femininity
2 Mar 2017
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Outline: sex, gender and identity: basic concepts/terms, gender roles, expectation, sexuality. Sex: biological categories: morphological characteristics, reproductive organs, chromosomes (23 pairs) Intersex (sex undetermined: recognition of intersex is relatively recent in a wide range of countries. Identities, social roles, and statuses that are products of particular cultural contexts/histories. Cultural categories: gender identities, gender (roles/expectations): Gender stratification: kathoeys (thaliand and laos) Identified young and considered born that way : hijira (third gender in india) Hijiras are not women or men: two spirit (native american) Masculine and feminine spirit living in the same body. Seen as natural and normative in pre-contact periods: gender categories (u. s. /west, transgender: gender identity differs from assigned sex, intersex: ambiguous biology and genitalia, sexual orientation: hetero-, homo-, bi-, and a-sexual. Eunuchs sometimes practiced ritualized self-castration for: religious purposes, to serve in royal courts as servants or important government officials. Castrati: opera singers in 18th century europe.
