SOC 300 Study Guide - Final Guide: Heteronormativity, Sexual Orientation Discrimination, Sarah Palin
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Soc 300 sociology of diversity: notes for final exam ||page 1 of 3. 1880"s all women suffer from hysteria (mentally ill) With the emergence of the enlightment, there was a need to keep track and categorize people: defined what constitutes as morality and immorality, creation of the two-sex model (even though many did not fit within these categories) 11. sex: physiological characteristics: both real and imagined = social construction, see what we believe , sex used to impose characteristics upon gender. Medical and psychological field argued gender derives from your reproductive organs: prior to two-sex model, there was the one-sex model which made no relation between sex. Without a difference made between sex, there was no taboo with same sex intercourse or and gender. Ann fausto-sterling argued there were not than just two sexes: inter-sex identities (only broad concepts: (3) true hermaphrodite (both genitalia, (4) male hermaphrodite (male on the inside, female on the outside, (5) female hermaphrodite (multiple female forms)
