Intersexuality

According to Saussure, a sign is a combination of a sound-image or “signifier” and concept or “signified”. One key concept in understanding semiotics is that the relationship between the signifier and the signified is always arbitrary. But since there is no logical connection between a word and a concept, the meanings that signifiers posses must somehow be learned. This implies that there are certain “codes” that evolve within a society or culture, which help individuals generate meaning from…

I just fins it really interesting that variety is all the rage now in our culture when it comes to things like body size, clothing, freedom of religion or sexuality, but when it comes to gender it is an issue. Everyting else we as humans experince is on a spectrum, but when it comes to gender you can only fit into onebox or another. Some people may argue that it is because God only made a man and a woman an dno inbetween, but if that is your arguement, when an intersex person is born, are you…

Written in 1972, Ann Oakley published Sex, Gender and Society, discusses the distinction between biological sex and gender. Her work considered ‘pioneering’ at the time of publishing, as it cited sources not just from sociological work, but from psychology, anthropology and scientific evidence. The purpose of this book is to discuss gender performativity, the construction of gender identity, and understand why sex/ gender roles are detrimental towards Western women’s movement towards equality…

Discourse community is a group of people who communicate with each other with the same goal. James Paul Gee wrote “Literacy, Discourse, and Linguistics: Introduction”, James E. Porter wrote” Intersexuality and the Discourse Community”, and John Swales wrote “the Concept of Discourse Community”. They express the ideas on discourse communities; but they also have some similarities on the ideas of discourse communities. Gee and Swales have the similar idea on the importance of social practice in…

MIDTERM PAPER # 1 In this response, I will focus and convey the importance of gender in the eyes of race; how it affects woman of color who are affected by racism and murders, how girls are not allowed to be sexual and only aspire to their dreams and lastly how patriarchy sees gender and race. Intersectionality is a theory in which race, poverty and patriarchy work as one in the oppression on women. The kind of oppression these women have shapes them into a feminist that realizes and fights for…

Gender Identity Throughout the Decades When thinking about gender, most people only see two genders. The definition of gender is “the characteristics that a society of culture delineates as masculine or feminine”. Gender differs from sex in that sex is biological; it involves your sex chromosomes, hormones, reproductive organs. There are 3 sexes, male, females and intersex. Intersex is having both male and female reproductive organs. Gender matters in society by how one acts or portrays…

Herculine Barbin is a memoir of an intersexed individual who struggles to gain acceptance from themselves and other people. They grow up as a woman and use feminine pronouns while living in an all-female space most of their life. Once Herculine hits puberty, they stand out from the other women, with the lack of menstruation and breasts and apparent facial hair. In Riki Wilchin’s Queer Theory, Gender Theory and Iain Moreland’s “What Can Queer Theory Do for Intersex?” both discuss how surgery…

characteristics, which are caused by an error in the sex chromosomes. Since both sides are present, it is very difficult for physicians to deal with issues involving the assignment of a specific sex or any consultations revolving around the issue. Intersexuality has been a major topic in medicine through history as has been subjected to a lot of controversy and different procedures. Even in the present day and age there are a lot of differences between how its viewed in distinct cultures and…

race affects the way people experience gender oppression, gender can not be looked at without looking at race, and that various ethnic cultures oppress those who are a part of it. A commonality between all of these arguments is the concept of intersexuality. Intersectionality has to be used to explain that race and racism have to be looked at to explain gender oppression. It explains the intersecting of race and gender to deepen gender oppression. The various facts that show the deepening of…

Academy of Education”(“James Gee.”). He claims that people who have similar interests, symbol, acting or beliefs could be in a same DC, and there are eight tools that he proposed to definite a DC, they are “social language”, “social identity”, “intersexuality”,” Discourse maps”,” kits”, “recognition”, “discourse” and “conversation”(Gee). For example, the OU is a big DC in this society because most members in OU are going to study; they get same belief and symbol, the “sooner citizens”. In the OU…