FEMST 20 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Sildenafil, Sex Assignment, Essentialism
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Gender binary: assumes there"s only two, mutually exclusive sexes and one-to-one. Fem 20 notes correspondence between sex & gender: sex. Anatomy: genitalia, chromosomes (xx= female and xy= male: gender. Behavior, conduct, appearance: essentialism: assumes body has intrinsic, inborn qualities that are real & unchangeable. Members of particular sex share common, fixed characteristics. Gender is natural expression of biological difference: social construction: assumes there"s no fixed, biological base for social differences. Gender not inherently natural property of body (it"s a social invention); created & shaped through social experience. Gender norms: set of rules for what"s appropriate masculine or feminine behavior in a given culture. Gender identity: way in which being feminine or masculine, woman or man, becomes an internalized part of how we think of ourselves. Ex: baby storm (david stocker kid)- raising gender neutral children- at 5 years old, Storm identifies as she what pronouns? (it, they)
