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17 Cards in this Set
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disorder of sexual development
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biological condition in which sexual development atypical
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transsexual
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person born completely biologically normal
-identify with another gender |
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gender as omnirelevant
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people see person as almost inhuman if don't have specific gender
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Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome
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XY
undescended testes female external genitals no menstruation |
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AIS: risk of testicular cancer
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less than 5%
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risk of breast cancer in normal woman
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12%
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existence of societies with 3rd gender suggest...
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our gender dichotomy is socially constructed
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Berdache
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male genitalia, raised as neither
have specific social role |
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Hijas
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males, some undergo castration, wear women's clothes
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surgery really for
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adults rather than children
-maintain social order, institutions |
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3 messages received by surgery patients
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1. objects of medical interest, treatment
2. were not to know what's wrong with them 3. procedures were in their best interest |
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medicalization
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process through which conditions come to be defined, treated as medical issues
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symbolic interactionism
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meaning of self and situation created in social interaction
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labeling theory
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deviance not inherent in person/situation, defined through social interactions
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stigma
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unwanted difference, culturally variable, defined through interaction
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people don't fail to meet definition of normal...
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confines of definition fail to meet people
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social movements that invert stigma
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black and beautiful
here, queer get used to it hermaphrodites with attitude |