SOC 445 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Vise, Transvestism, Gender Identity

• School: U of M
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 445
• Professor: Professor PJ McGann

Document Summary

Lecture 10/31: gender 101, sex = (presumably) biological difference based on reproductive potential, genitalia, gonads, chromosomes, sometimes hormones, gender = social construction; the meaning and significance of sex. We"re taught that the sex binary is given to us by nature, but there isn"t a clear line that differentiates standard typical male and female. } none of these turn into this perfect binary. Variation between history, cross-cultural, and intra-societal or political factors: there are different levels of meaning and. But we know that there can be male bodied people that are feminine and vise versa. Inversion was getting at the idea that sex and gender were basically the same thing. We make assumptions in everyday life of people"s sex/gender; these two get conflated because we decide someone"s sex by their gender or vise versa. Secondary sex characteristics like an adam"s apple. Inversion is the phenomenon where it describes (basically) lesbians and gays based on appearance, comportment, interests, sexuality, identification.