WGST 2812- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 26 pages long!)

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Week (cid:1006): sept (cid:1005)5 discussion sept (cid:1005)5 - lecture 2. Gender: culturally constructed roles assigned to male or females and these vary considerably from society to society. Sex: the physical characteristics that distinguish males from females ( chromosomes, organs, body shape, body hair etc) Cis-gender: when the personal identity corresponds with the birth sex. Transgender: personal identity does not correspond with birth sex. Understanding gender as a lived process rather than a consequence of your sex. Gender is a set of relations configured through bodies, spatial, discursive and material processes. By examining gender as a practice we are able to see: Boys do more stem classes and girls do more arts or home-ec classes. Men in europe wear speedos but in america men wear swim shorts. Children are too young to go out and create things in the world so they are just consuming things. We study children and youth because they are different than their adult counterparts.

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