Sociology 2140 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Sexual Assault, Sexual Objectification, Escalator
14 Apr 2014
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Some people today believe that gender inequality is a thing of the past: these people believe that men and women in canada are equal, nowhere is gender inequality more clearly illustrated than in the persistence against women. Patriarchy: refers to a hierarchical system of social organization in which cultural, political, and economic structures are controlled by men. Sex: sex refers to the biological, physiological, hormonal, and chromosomal attributes of females, males and intersex people: our sex in the first thing we receive in life. Intersexed children: unrecognizably male or female genitalia or with both. We surgically alter the child to meet our two-sex model. Andorcentricity: the practice of putting males at the center: at one point in time females were viewed as a flawed version of the male. In the 1800 that way of thinking stopped and women were looked at as fundamentally different than men.
