WOMS202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Pink-Collar Worker, Personal Grooming, Genderqueer
10 Mar 2018
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Gender is how someone identifies, social category, roles dress and behavior; the socially constructed roles, behaviors, activities and attributes that a given society considers appropriate. Sex: a biological term designating a certain combination of genitalia, secondary sex characteristics (like breasts) and chromosomes. Typically assigned at a birth as male or female. Sex becomes gender through naming, dress, and other gender markers (voice, groups of friends, hair length, jobs (pink collar jobs for women), personal grooming) boy, girl, gender-queer)-(internal) Gender identity refers to how you personally refer to your gender (man, woman, Gender expression refers to the way you present gender through dress (external) Gender is produced through the ideas, practices, and interactions of people . Is female to male as nature is to culture? -ortner. Women"s second class status is everywhere, difficult because there is not one specific reason as to why this happens, since cultures are so diverse.
