WGSS 1124 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Sex Organ, Sex Reassignment Surgery, Genderqueer
13 Sep 2016
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Society differentiates male and female roles, resulting in gender. Gender roles ascribed to men and women vary greatly from culture to culture. Qualities of masculinity & femininity usually opposites of each other. Constructivism: a philosophy that maintains the knowledge is the result of mental constructs we have developed to explain sensory experience. Social constructivism: applies this concept to our sociocultural experience. Post-structuralism: is a movement that questions social constructions by destabilizing or deconstructing ideas. Bias: an internal, often unconscious prejudice against a thing, person, or group, when compared to another. Sex: assigned at birth, based on appearance of genitals. Sexual orientation: a person"s sexual or romantic attraction to another person based on the other person"s gender, but not related to one"s own gender identity. Gender identity: a person"s innate sense of gender and self. Gender expression/performance: outward expression of gender, often calculated to create a balance between accepted societal norms and personal preferences.
