SOCA01H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Hegemonic Masculinity, Caster Semenya, Transsexual
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Chapter 8: gender idea that a given phenomenon can be located within one or the other of two mutually exclusive categories; (cid:862)opposite se(cid:454)(cid:863) Gender: social distinctions between masculinity and femininity sex is a binary opposition between male and female; gender is a binary opposition between masculinity and femininity. Contemporary theorizing has problematized the sex/gender distinction as a false dichotomy. Inter-sexed individuals: individuals born with ambitious genitalia: also referred to as hermaphrodites, these people tend to have some combination of female and male genitalia and/or chromosomes. Case of maria patino, a woman hurdler who set to compete in the olympics: the ioc (cid:396)e(cid:395)ui(cid:396)es p(cid:396)oof of fe(cid:373)i(cid:374)i(cid:374)it(cid:455) i(cid:374) the fo(cid:396)(cid:373) of a do(cid:272)to(cid:396)"s (cid:272)e(cid:396)tificate. She was examined and told that she had failed the test; despite looking like a woman, she was informed that she had a y chromosome and internal testes (had no uterus or ovaries).