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    Drag Subcultures

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    drag kings have another set of challenges. Improper breast binding can actually be dangerous” (Kings and Queens for a Day 2016). Drag queen is a slang term that is used to describe one variation of male-to-female cross-dressing; drag queens are men who dress as women. Drag king is female-to-male cross-dressing. Gender is essential in society and its importance is often unrecognized despite its major influence. Gender assigning is one of the prominent social constructs in mainstream culture.…

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    Infertility Research

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    with either infertility, recurrent spontaneous abortion (RCA) or lower genital tract infections (LGTI) along with 183 healthy pregnant and non-pregnant women to determine the causality between BV and infertility. Each woman was asked about their reproductive health history and any history of STI’s. A pelvic examination was done to record signs of infection and measure vaginal secretion pH. Results showed the infection rate was highest among infertile women (25.9%). Most of those infected had a…

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    sexual selection acting through male competition and that males mated more than females. Bateman stated that males were expected to display polygamous tendencies while females would prefer monogamous partners. Similar results were concluded in a study performed by Gowaty, Kim and Anderson, (2013) using Mendel’s law of heredity transmission of characteristics from one generation to the next. The results concluded that females’ offspring did represent higher rates of promiscuousness than Bateman…

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    Sifakas Physical Traits

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    The males are also very competitive for mates, but submissive to females when it comes to food and shelter. Their young have a rather long maturation period compared to other animals, so they rely on their mothers to nurture them until the can reach around full size around a year old. The Sifakas are a social matriarchy. They generally live in groups of 2 to 10 lemurs and can be territorial, especially with food and shelter. Females will show their dominance over the males in the group without…

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    doctors to be able to do this correctly, this is the process of capacitation. Capacitation is when sperm is prepared to fertilize the egg, this takes place in two stages. The first stage is taken place when the sperm passes through the woman's reproductive tract. Then it's acrosome (cap-like structure over the anterior half of the sperm's head) fuses with its plasma membrane, which then slowly releases the enzymes within the acrosome. The second stage takes place after the acrosome is exposed,…

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    towards equality within both the public/private sphere. Chapter 1 discusses biology and differentiation of sex through hormones, chromosomes, genes and reproductive organs[23]. Oakley states the belief of emotional instability in women as the result of hormones, lacks…

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    Caster Semenya

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    produce testosterone. Because of this result, there was a huge debate whether she would be allowed to race as a woman because she had a huge advantage over the others. However, Dr. Myron Genel, a professor at Yale University, states that she is a female born with a birth defect. Normally, in the world there is 1% of the population that are born with a disorder of sexual development. Many of these people can show the physical characteristic of both genders or have a chromosomal disorder.…

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    discriminate and even denigrate them. A feature that warns there frequently in the media is the asymmetry when dealing with females compared to males, as we shall see in the following cases. Advertising is a very powerful form of social communication in modern society. It provides the imagery with the most support and the highest concentration anywhere in the media system. The woman was very helpful for advertisers through the history element. In some cases it is set as an object of desire and…

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    male, female or intersex. However, a person is identified by himself/herself or the society as belonging to the third gender based on the individual’s gender identity, sexual orientation and gender role in the society. To different cultures and individuals, third gender represents different phenomenon. It is considered as an intermediate state…

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    meeting all the qualifications that set the standards for a high class status. Class and Gender are seen as independent variables, having no connection with each other. Class is known to be an untouched subject in society and in our criminal justice system. Leaving behind the notion that “anyone can make it if they try hard enough”, but this has been shown to be false. Studying the interaction between Class and Gender, women were doomed from the start and man were always more likely to succeed.…

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