Hermaphrodite

that reproduction methods are species dependant, though there are similarities and overlaps (Petersen, 1987). In a study of Serranus faciatus, Petersen (1987) found that all individuals have fully functional gonads of both sexes (simultaneous hermaphrodite) however, the larger individuals will reabsorb their female gonads. This adaptation allows to fish to be better adapted for survival in their environment. Similarly, other species have developed unique reproductive, defensive, and predatory…

After the judge makes his statement “you are not the biological mother and the children will be placed with their real father”, three children are whisked away screaming for what they have always known as their mother, while police escort a woman in tears out another door never to see her children again because of a biological mystery. This scene was soon going to happen to a few mothers, although the mother in question gave birth to her children science resulted in some questionable evidence.…

appeared to her with intentions of making her piety visible to the world. The text states, “ He wanted that I suffer for the duration of my life, and therefore that I arrqange myself in the form of the cross because he wanted to imprint his Holy wounds on my body” (Brown 57). According to the text, receiving the stigmata was a miracle with extreme prestige, and it brought much power to Benedetta in her convent. The second significant element in Benedetta’s reign of religious power in her…

Although homosexuality’s existence no doubt preceded scientific or academic scrutiny, its study and differentiation from heterosexuality emerged at the same time as boundaries of black and white bodies were being studied. In the Jim Crow segregation era, relationships between two people of the same sex would already be troublesome, but two women of different races, would be especially alarming. The existence of race within sexuality, and vice versa, amplified the other’s presence more. Through…

Throughout the course, we have explored the multifaceted, constantly changing concept of gender (1). Culture, religion, politics and global relations affect the manor in which gender has been shaped. There are many different theories about the possible biological and physiological influence as well as theories that utilize only social and cultural basis. One of the most complicated aspects of understanding gender is the difference between sex and gender. The definition of sex (2), the result of…

Judith Butler makes the argument in her most influential book, “Gender Trouble,” that gender is a performance; it's what the gender does at particular times, rather than universal standards of gender. The distinction between the two is what creates an idea or perception of gender. According to Judith Butler’s “Gender Trouble”: “There is no gender identity behind the expressions of gender; that identity is performatively constituted by the very ‘expressions’ that are said to be its results” (33).…

By the colonial and post-colonial era in South Asia, many people of marginalized genders and sexualities are given harmful labels, and pushed to the fringed of societies by colonizers and elites. Colonizers used religion and economics to enforce a deviant label onto people with marginalized sexualities while reinforcing heterosexuality and the gender binary as being the only real way to have meaningful relationships, despite evidence of the fluidity of gender and sexuality, not only in narrative…

In Guns, Germs, and Steel, a man named Jared Diamond is in New Guinea doing field work. He meets a New Guinean man named Yali. Yali and JD are both hungry for knowledge and goes exploring. While walking around, Yali asks JD why are the whites so successful and have so much “cargo” compared to the other locals. Then, JD rephrases the question: Why did the White Eurasians dominate over other cultures by means of superior guns,…

The way I have always studied for a class has been to read all the material given by the professor, memorize the things that I believe to be most important and then write everything down from my memory while saying it out loud. When I get confused or I make a mistake I go back to that lecture or chapter and I review again, writing down things that I forgot as I go. After I have written down everything I need, I go back to the beginning of my notes and read them chunk by chunk. As I finish…

hermaphroditic reef fishes found that reproduction was species dependant, though there were similarities and overlaps (Petersen, 1987). Studying Serranus faciatus, they found that individuals has fully function gonads of both sexes (simultaneous hermaphrodite) however, the larger individuals will reabsorb their female gonads (Petersen, 1987).…