( 1 of 12 ) • Objectification is the process of treating human beings as if they were objects • Objectification of Women – referred to as “females” – seen as “all alike” – subordinate and passive – easily ignored and trivialized • Cult of thinness – people worship the perfect body Chapter 10 Sex and Gender
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• Objectification is the process of treating human beings as if they were objects
• Objectification of Women– referred to as “females”– seen as “all alike”– subordinate and passive – easily ignored and trivialized
• Cult of thinness– people worship the perfect body
Chapter 10Sex and Gender
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Nichelle Urban Hipster
2005
Marissa Beach baby
2005
Barbie 1960
Barbie's measurements equate to 39-18-33 inches. Those numbers fall far below even today's typical size 8 woman. Far below . . . the waist for a size 8 is 27 inches. And the average woman in the US today is a size 16.
• Sex biological and anatomical differences between females and males– Primary sex characteristics (genitals)– Secondary sex characteristics (other than reproductive
organs)
• Intersexual (hermaphrodite) ambiguous sexual differentiation– does not mean a person possesses both a penis and a
vagina
• Transsexual sex-related structures of the brain that define gender are opposite from the physical sex organs of the person’s body
Sex: The Biological Dimension
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• Transvestite a person who lives as the opposite sex but does not alter the genitals– cross-dressers are not transsexuals or transvestites
• Sexual orientation – preference for emotional-sexual relationships with members of the
• opposite sex (heterosexual)• same sex (homosexual)• both (bi-sexual)
• “Transgender”• Homophobia
Criteria for Identificationof homosexual and bi-sexual people (University
of Chicago)
(1) sexual attraction(2) sexual involvement(3) self-identification
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Kinsey Scale
0- Exclusively heterosexual 1- Predominantly heterosexual, only incidentally homosexual 2- Predominantly heterosexual, but more than incidentally homosexual 3- Equally heterosexual and homosexual 4- Predominantly homosexual, but more than incidentally heterosexual 5- Predominantly homosexual, only incidentally heterosexual 6- Exclusively homosexual
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• Gender culturally and socially-constructed differences between females and males– Masculinity– Femininity
• Gender role “appropriate” for each sex• Gender identity perception of self as male or female
• Body consciousness is how a person perceives and feels about his/her body– Eating disorders: anorexia, bulimia, obesity– Bodybuilding
– Body dysmorphic disorder
Gender: The Cultural Dimension
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• Sexism subordination of one sex (usually female), based on the assumed superiority of the other sex