What is the relationship between these two people

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What is the relationship between these two people?
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Gender Identity

• Case Study 2007

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Gender major or minor component of ID?

•  The content dimension comprises the defining
  properties of the identity, the characteristics
  which the individual concerned considers actually
  to describe himself or herself and which, taken
  together as a syndrome, mark him or her as a
  unique person, different in psychological profile
  from all others. Even where many of the elements
  in the content dimension are shared with other
  people, their specific constellation and
  compilation will be distinctive of the
  individual
• (Breakwell, 1986, p12)

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Sex Gender a simple distinction?

• Sex biological differences between male and
  female.
• Gender a socially constructed definition of
  what it means to be masculine or feminine.
• See Lindsey in Marsh Keating (2006264)

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Sugar Spice and All Things Nice thats what
little girls are made of - arent they?
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Big Boys Dont Cry do they?
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Biology as the core of identity

• Sociobiology essentialism
• Evolution
• Genes
• Hormones
• Personality Traits
• Distinct roles

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Social constructionism learning

• identity is not a biological thing. Biology
  makes identity possible....Identity starts with
  the biological body but then develops from there
  (Baumeister 1986174).
• Cultural diversity gender is relative to
  time, place social status.
• Gender is socially constructed (defined by a
  dominant gender ideology).
• Role play as gendered
• Social Learning Theory Socialisation are key to
  understanding how gender is aquired.

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Gender as performance

• Gender ought not to be construed as a stable
  identity of locus of agency from which various
  acts follow rather gender is an identity
  tenuously constituted in time, instituted as an
  exterior space through a stylized repetition of
  acts. The effect of gender is produced through
  the stylization of the body and, hence, must be
  understood as the mundane way in which bodily
  gestures, movements, and styles of various kinds
  constitute the illusion of constantly gendered
  self.... That gendered reality is created through
  sustained social performances means that the very
  notions of an essential sex and a true or abiding
  masculinity or femininity are also ... part of
  the strategy that conceals gender's performative
  character.
• (Butler, 1990 140-5)

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Kate Bornstein's Gender Aptitude Test

• Discovering Your Gender Aptitude
• Would you like to know more about your own gender
  and how it's been affecting your life? Just how
  freewheeling and open are you when it comes to
  the subject of gender and sexuality? Do you have
  much flexibility when it comes to grasping the
  mechanics of changing genders? How about the
  people who are questioning their own genders
  these days? Are they a little crazy for doing
  that? Here's a series of questions that will give
  you a good idea of exactly where you stand when
  it comes to gender. This isn't a quiz or an exam
  to see how good you are at this. There are no
  right or wrong answers. Just take your time and
  check off the answers that most nearly match the
  way you feel about each question. When you're
  done, you'll know your GA - your Gender Aptitude.
  
• Which of the following most accurately describes
  you?
• I'm a real man.
• I'm a real woman.
• I'm not a real man or a real woman, but I'd like
  to be.
• None of the above. I'm something else entirely.
• http//cydathria.com/cgi-bin/SurveyShow.pl?script
  gatpage/ga_test.html

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If gender is socially constructed what about
sex?

• By accident?
• Bruce, Brenda or Dave?
• By choice?
• He Li-hsiu