Sex+and+Gender+Identity

=**__Vocab:__**=

**__Gender Identity-__ an awareness of being masculine or feminine, based on culture**
=**"basic element that helps make up an individual's personality and sense of self"**= =__Defining Male and Female:__=

~Assumed to behave differently because of their sex

 * Men assumed to be naturally more aggressive and built for providing and protecting
 * Women assumed to be more passive and in greater need of protection

~From the first day of birth males and females are treated differently

 * parents stress about the characteristics and behaviors that fit society's image of the ideal male or femal
 * Ex: modes of dress, physical appearance( broad shoulders on a boy), play activities, and life aspirations

~Does biology or sociology play a greater role in gender differences? (nature vs. nurture)
= = =__Biology, Culture, and Behavior:__=
 * physical characteristics or how you are raised to act affect your gender identity?

Biological:

 * muscle-to bone- ratios
 * how fat is stored
 * reproductive organs
 * MOST IMPORTANT
 * reproductive organs influence development in both females and males
 * Brain
 * more activity of responses linked to fighting
 * Females highly linked to emotional expression
 * ect.

Cultural:

 * associate with different way of behaving for males and females
 * Differ in what they look for in romantic and sexual partners (
 * Men look more in to physical appearance and slightly younger mates
 * Women look more into social class and income and slighty older mates
 * differences in culture suggest they have a biological cause
 * dont know the extent the differences result from biology or culture
 * Other cultures have different biological determinism Ex: both women and men were strained to be "masculine" in Mundugumor
 * Biological tendancies are easily influenced by culture and society (ex: parents raise child as opposite sex who then resist going back after years)

Behavior:

 * researchers investigating behavior differences between sexes have not been able to prove that behavior has a biological cause

=*Biological characteristics can be modified by social influences=


 * @http://www.google.com/imgres?q=graphs+of+gender+differences&hl=en&gbv=2&biw=1366&bih=641&tbm=isch&tbnid=JSrrmgFDbjCgwM:&imgrefurl=http://www.devpsy.org/teaching/gender/sex_differences.html&docid=Keji6FXnEiWNwM&imgurl=http://www.devpsy.org/teaching/gender/gender_difference_height.gif&w=625&h=361&ei=Pw4GT5L5JuL50gHS-snnDg&zoom=1&iact=rc&dur=436&sig=112906374797159828935&page=1&tbnh=99&tbnw=172&start=0&ndsp=18&ved=1t:429,r:0,s:0&tx=89&ty=53
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**Article:**
Gives advice and tips on guys and girls. This shows the biological determinism and gender identity of society of how males and females are viewed as how they are supposed to act @http://www.tipsonlifeandlove.com/tag/male-behavior

media type="youtube" key="e8Pr78Sr4cw" height="315" width="560" ^ Emma Donoghue describes gender identity in her books and the stereotype given

media type="youtube" key="iC3z5VHuTbI" height="315" width="420" ^ Goes against Gender Identity media type="youtube" key="eYxOB9RX3es" height="315" width="420" ^Presents gender identity