SOC100H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8-10: Early Childhood Education, Sex Segregation, Heteronormativity
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Your sex: depends on whether you were born with male or female genitals and a genetic program that releases male or female hormones to stimulate the development of your reproductive system. Your gender: refers to culturally and socially constructed differences between females and males found in the meanings, beliefs and practices associated with femininity and masculinity. Identification with, or sense of belonging to a particular sex (biologically, physiologically, socially) We tend to operate on heteronormativity but there have always been differences (there were always people who were strictly heterosexual, homosexual and bisexual) Set of ideas about what constitutes appropriate masculine and feminine roles and behaviours. Holds that heterosexuality is the normal sexual orientation and assumes an alignment between biological sex, gender identity, and gender roles. Intersex: variation in sex characteristics that do not allow distinct sex, actual biological ambiguity, effects identity. Transgendered: break social norms by defying rigid distinctions (man dressing like a woman)
