ANTH 2170 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Partial Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome, Hegemonic Masculinity, Intersex
27 Nov 2013
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Symbol embodying the qualities of his nation. Intersexuality encompasses a variety of bodily states that have in common sexual ambiguity. Intersexed persons (sometimes referred to as hermaphrodites) are persons who are born with ambiguous genitals, gonads, or chromosomes. Complete or partial androgen insensitivity syndrome, hormonal disorder. Kleinfelter"s syndrome: xxy chromosomal pattern in males caused by chromosomal variation in males. Erasure or correction through physical, social, legal and medical means. Eliminating intersexuality allows us to maintain our cultural presumptions about the duality of sex which is essential to maintain the social order that privileges one sex over the other, and enforces stereotypical norms of masculinity, femininity, and heterosexuality. There is insufficient scientific evidence to say that testosterone in women confers unfair advantage. Testosterone has been isolated as both a marker of sex and a maker of the athlete when both sex and athletic performance are complex. If the level of testosterone occurs naturally, its not unfair.
