SOC-1010 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Reproductive Rights, Psychological Trauma, Separate Spheres
23 Apr 2016
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Sex: a mainly biological distinction between males and females based on fundamental differences in their reproductive functions. Gender: the physical, behavioral, and personality characteristics considered appropriate for a sex. Actually a continuum between male and female sex. Intersexed: people who have some combination of the genitalia of both males and females. Transsexuals: individuals whose genitalia are of the sex opposite to the one with which he or she identifies and who may undergo treatment or surgery to acquire the physical characteristics of the self- identified sex. Amounts of hormones vary greatly from individual to individual within and between sexes. **biologically: no absolutely clear-cut differences between men and women. Sometimes, there is even a socially defined third gender that is neither man, women, or combo. Sexual selves: sexuality: the ways in which people think about, and behave toward, themselves and others as. Growing number of sexually linked social problems b. ii.
