ANT 160 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Sexual Intercourse, Lactation, Heterosexuality
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Create gender standards and organizational rules and expectations. Develop an understanding of how cultural diversity shapes gender and gender roles. How structures form the basis of power and resource allocation. The investigation of sex and gender is frequently an arena for a version of the. Refers to the biological characteristics associated with maleness and femaleness. Refers to the social and cultural characteristics of masculinity and femininity. However, this distinction appears likely to become less clear because the cultural processes of gendering have been found to have a multitude of effects of biology. Sexual dimorphism primary (genitalia) and secondary (breasts) sexual features. Gendering : the process by which individuals take on gender identities,behaviors, and men and women women, reflecting their different positions in social hierarchy actions. there is no such thing as a single, fixed gender identity, such as man or. Strong differentiation between the home and the outside world is called the .