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Intersexuality, 2004.
This paper discusses intersexuality, meaning between male and female, neither male or female, as presented by Christine Gorman and Wendy Cole in the "Time" magazine article, "Between the Sexes".
880 words (approx. 3.5 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 31.95
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This paper explains that the most important information contained in "Between the Sexes" is the perception of gender, gender identity, and gender flexibility. The author points out that the article determines that intersexuality is more a social than a medical issue by raising the question of whether it is appropriate or desirable to assign a gender at birth to an intersexual child. The paper relates that, by using several interview subjects, the authors illustrate how intersexuality affects individual people personally; therefore, they treat the subject from an intimate perspective and don't just provide a dry overview of the topic.
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"The authors also question the notion of that "there are just two separate sexes." The topic of intersexuality naturally raises the issue of whether gender should be rigidly defined or whether gender should rather be viewed on a continuum. Thus, Gorman and Cole work to dispel the prevalent social myth that all individuals must be assigned a clear, unequivocal gender status. Examining the collective phenomena of intersexuality can also help people to contemplate gender roles and social norms in society."
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Transgender Nation (Gordene MacKenzie), 2001.
Sociocultural analysis of 1994 book on transgender movement. Defines types of intersexual people. Civil liberties issues.
1,575 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 1 source, $ 55.95
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"Introduction
According to Gordene MacKenzie (1994), the transgender movement is inextricably bound up with the gender movement in the United States and they are the most important civil rights movements of the 1990s. MacKenzie, who teaches courses on sex and gender, along with popular culture, is in the Women Studies Program at the University of New Mexico.
Looking at Language
It might help to start by making some distinctions in terminology. Many terms have been used interchangeably, and there is some confusion about their meaning. The basic terms are transvestite, transsexual, and transgenderist. The transvestite individual, whether male or female, is the individual who attempts to look like.."
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Liminal Aspects of Gender, 2002.
A discussion of the liminal aspects of transgender and cross-gender experience.
3,153 words (approx. 12.6 pages), 14 sources, APA, $ 91.95
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This essay outlines the experience of cross gendered people in both India and the West and discusses liminal aspects of cross gendered experience. The paper begins with a history of the separation of ?gender? and ?sex?, which occurred in the latter half of the twentieth century. The use of the term ?gender? as a reference for the social aspects of sex identity first occurred in the context of clinical research on intersexuality (hermaphroditism) in the 1950?s. The paper then explores the issues of transgender and cross-gender in today's times, specifically focussing on India as compared to the West. The paper explains that sex and gender are currently being redefined by feminist scholars with challenges to the 'universal' sex/gender binary through cross-cultural analysis.
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"One of the most dynamic and relevant areas in anthropology today is the field of sex and gender in anthropology, with feminist scholars redefining Western, and anthropological, sex/gender ?norms? through cross-cultural analysis. ?The possibility of having more than two genders was opened up by divorcing gender from sexual morphology and by associating gender rather, indeed primarily, with social role and labour tasks? (Ramet 1996: 2). While concepts of universal, male:female, sexual binaries are being called into question, cross-cultural evidence and anthropological theories are being employed in entirely new ways."
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