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sex and gender
Title: sex and gender
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 334 | Pages: 1.4 (approximately 235 words/page)
sex and gender
Sex and Gender are rooted in biology
What does it mean to be male and what does it mean to be female in society today? In the past the terms sex and gender were sometimes used interchangeably, yet today according to the text New Society, sex refers to biological differences between males and females, and gender refers to the behaviours that are associated with being masculine and feminine. This leads us to the two perspectives …showed first 75 words of 334 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 334 total…characteristics of being masculine and feminine came from somewhere, meaning who decided that playing with dolls is a girl thing and boys playing with guns is a boy thing before culture existed? Those motives must have come from !
somewhere long ago and they must have come from an instinctive motive. Now of course in present time those things are part of culture’s norms, making us in fact products of social structure and culture.
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