ANTHROP 1AA3 Study Guide - Final Guide: Michel Foucault, Genderqueer, Margaret Mead

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTHROP 1AA3
• Professor: Karen Mc Garry

Document Summary

Codes of gender: gender as a performance, gender as embodied, conscious or unconscious, gender as dynamic. In some cultures, shifting gender roles is normal: as such, ones sex does not always correspond with expected gender roles and constructs or identity. Gender identity: how people internalize attitudes and expectations, transgender- persons whose gender identity, gender expression, or behavior does not conform to their sex at birth, examples of categories of transgender, transsexual, androgyne, gender non-conforming. Third gender: gender roles that are distinct from dichotomous feminine or masculine roles, e. g. two spirits. Two spirited people (berdache: they specialized in productive activities associated with the opposite gender, males did crafts and domestic work, females participated in hunting, warfare, leadership roles. Sworn virgins of albania: biological females who live as men, women who have given up their identity as females and live as men so they can express their freedom and own lands and continue their families heritage.