ANTHROP 1AA3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Transvestism, Gender Inequality, Gender Role
3 May 2017
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Gender: culturally constructed and learned behaviours and ideas associated with masculinity, femininity, or a third, or blended gender. Gender is contrasted to sex, which uses biological markers to define categories of male and female. Gender construct: the set of cultural assumptions about gender roles and values and the relations between the genders that people learn as members of societies. Transvestism: dressing in the clothes usually worn by members of the opposite gender. Berdaches: a blurred gender category, usually referring to a person who is biologically male but who assumes a female gender role. Two-spirit: in native american societies, males who adopted some of the social and economic roles of women, and females who adopted some of the social and economic roles of men. Gender roles: constellations of rights, duties, attitudes, and behaviours that are culturally associated with each gender.
