Unformatted text preview: opportunities for others. This has created social struggles for equality.-How many genders? o Western societies have only two genders: “masculine” and “feminine” o Other societies have up to 5 genders o “There are as many genders as there are people” – Anne Wats o Examples of other genders: Berdaches or hijras or xaniths = biological males who behave, dress, work, and are treated in most respects as social women; they are, in our language, “male women” Manly hearted women = biological females who work, marry, and parent as men; their social status is “female men”; do not have to behave or dress as men but have the social responsibilities and rights of husbands and fathers; what makes them men is enough wealth to buy a wife...
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This note was uploaded on 10/24/2011 for the course SOCY 105 taught by Professor Mogadam during the Spring '05 term at Maryland.
- Spring '05