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Topic: Biological sex


  
 Sex - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Discordances between the biological and psychosocial levels, such as when the gender identity does not match the anatomic sex, or between the various psychosocial levels, such as when the gender role does not match the gender identity, are even more common, but less well understood, generally speaking.
In contrast to the small percentage of people with biological discordances of sex, a fairly large proportion of human beings may be "discordant" in one or more behavioral or psychological dimensions.
Discordance at the biological levels is often referred to as an intersex condition.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex   (1694 words)

  
 Sex - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In contrast to the small percentage of people with biological discordances of sex, a fairly large proportion of human beings may be "discordant" in one or more behavioral or psychological dimensions.
Discordances between the biological and psychosocial levels, such as when the gender identity does not match the anatomic sex, or between the various psychosocial levels, such as when the gender role does not match the gender identity, are even more common, but less well understood, generally speaking.
Discordance at the biological levels is often referred to as an intersex condition.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex   (1656 words)

  
 Sex assignment - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Criteria for assignment in these cases have evolved over the decades, as our understanding of the biological factors and our diagnostic tests have improved, as surgical techniques have changed and potential complications have become clearer, and in response to the outcomes and opinions of adults who have grown up with various intersex conditions.
However, the usual act of assignment carries with it some conscious and unconscious assumptions, namely that the external genitalia reflect other aspects of biological sex, such as internal anatomy, gonads, hormones, and chromosomes.
The act of assignment usually carries the implicit expectation that future gender identity will develop in the gender of anatomy, assignment, and rearing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_assignment   (1656 words)

  
 Sexual differentiation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Because we cannot explore hormonal influences on human reproductive behavior experimentally, and because potential political implications are so unwelcome to many factions of society, the relative contributions of biological factors and learning to human psychological and behavioral sex differences (especially gender identity, role, and orientation) remain unsettled and controversial.
The relationship of biological factors to more advanced and more specifically human aspects of differentiation, and especially the ways and degrees by which social and environmental influences contribute to psychological and behavioral differentiation, is less well understood and a common subject of political controversy.
Structural sex differences begin to be recognizable by 2 years of age, and in adult men and women include size and shape of corpus callosum and certain hypothalamic nuclei, and the gonadotropin feedback response to estradiol.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_differentiation   (1656 words)

  
 Howstuffworks "How Sex Works"
We will examine the body's sexual organs, the biological cycles of sex, and the process of fertilization.
From a biological standpoint, the goal of sex is to merge two sets of genetic information, one from the father and one from the mother, to make a baby that is genetically different from either parent.
Sex plays a major role in much of our culture -- we see it in our fashion, literature, music, television and movies.
http://www.howstuffworks.com/human-reproduction.htm   (152 words)

  
 Sex - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Discordances between the biological and psychosocial levels, such as when the gender identity does not match the anatomic sex, or between the various psychosocial levels, such as when the gender role does not match the gender identity, are even more common but less well understood.
In contrast to the small percentage of people with biological discordances of sex, a fairly large proportion of human beings may be "discordant" in one or more behavioral or psychological dimensions.
Discordance at the biological levels is often referred to as an intersex condition.
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex   (152 words)

  
 - Nina Lykke, ARE CYBORGS QUEER? biological determinism and feminist theory in the age of new reproductive technologies and reprogenetics
Sustained by the authority of science, biological determinist discourses have throughout the modern period defined an array of bodily markers - sex, reproductive capacities, the bodily phases of ageing, skin colour, physical and mental outfit, mother tongue etc. - that should perform as stable and "natural" referents for the formation of identities, subjectivities and desires.
An effect of all this is that gendered, sexual and reproductive identities, which biological determinism formerly with a certain success could claim were one and the same thing, in the ongoing processes of scientific reproduction are being split up.
She will emphasize that the feminist fight against biological determinism must be able to combine the critical deconstruction of the monocausal links from sex to gender with an exploration of the potentials as well as the problems implied in the effects of the "opposite" kind of detachment: the desexualization of reproduction.
http://www.women.it/cyberarchive/files/lykke.htm   (6387 words)

  
 Gender role - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Biological conditions that cause a person's physiological sex to be not easily determined are collectively known as intersex.
When an individual exhibits a gender role that is discordant with his or her gender identity, it is most often done to deliberately provoke a sense of incongruity and a humorous reaction to the attempts of a person of one sex to pass himself or herself off as a member of the opposite sex.
Transsexualism also exists, where a person who is born as one sex and is brought up in that sex, but has gender identity of the opposite sex and wishes to live and does live according to the gender roles associated with that sex.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_role   (3923 words)

  
 Sex - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Discordances between the biological and psychosocial levels, such as when the gender identity does not match the anatomic sex, or between the various psychosocial levels, such as when the gender role does not match the gender identity, are even more common but less well understood.
In contrast to the small percentage of people with biological discordances of sex, a fairly large proportion of human beings may be "discordant" in one or more behavioral or psychological dimensions.
It shows the man with broader shoulders (sex dimorphism) and the woman in clothing that is in the western world rarely worn by men, a dress (which functions as a gender signal).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex   (1945 words)

  
 biodeterm
Biological determinists examine the living conditions of contemporary hunting and gathering groups to see if sex specific behaviors enhance adaptability.
Presumably, during long expanses of human existence the biological adaptability of homo sapiens was enhanced by the sexes behaving in distinctly different ways.
Sex-specific behavior patterns are the end result of a long-term process of biological evolution -- a process of genetic change based on competition for subsistence and natural selection.
http://www.faculty.fairfield.edu/faculty/hodgson/Courses/so142/Frameworks/biodeterm.htm   (249 words)

  
 man - Article and Reference from OnPedia.com
The term boy is used to indicate biological sex distinctions, cultural gender role distinctions, or both.
The secondary sex characteristics, such as body hair and muscle growth, are involved in attracting a mate or in defeating rivals.
In contrast to women, men have sex organs that are mostly considered to be external, although many parts of the male reproductive system are internal as well (such as the prostate).
http://www.onpedia.com/encyclopedia/man   (1142 words)

  
 Sex
The second clear fact about human sex and gender is that a significant proportion of the human population is discordant at some levels of this paradigm, meaning that many people do not have every single biological, psychological, behavioral, and social characteristic in the same column.
Discordances between the biological and psychosocial levels, such as when the gender identity does not match the anatomic sex, or between the various psychosocial levels, such as when the gender role does not match the gender identity, are even more common but less well understood.
The word sex is also used as an abbreviation to refer to sexual intercourse (the physical acts related to sexual reproduction) and other human sexual behavior, but this article will discuss the concept of sex defined above.
http://www.1-free-software.com/en/wikipedia/s/se/sex.html   (1534 words)

  
 NWSA Journal--Biological Behavior? Hormones, Psychology, and Sex
Contemporary behavioral endocrinology and biological psychology claim that sex hormones play an important role in the production of sex differences in human and other animal behaviors.
Throughout the article Witelson states that sex differences in various parts of the brain could affect particular behaviors, and so ends up concluding that there is a biological basis of behavioral and cognitive differences between the sexes and between homo- and heterosexuals (1991, 148).
Within the sciences of psychology and behavioral endocrinology, sex hormones are attributed powers to produce sex differences in behaviors such as children's play and adult sexuality.
http://iupjournals.org/nwsa/nws12-3.html   (1534 words)

  
 Sex Roles
It just means in some cases it can be done when it is to the advantage of the patient because he has biological and cultural tendencies toward the new sex role.
And this is because sex identity and behavior is neutral at birth, according to the theory.
The critical development period for sex role development is between birth to 2 or 3 years of age, according to the theory.
http://becomingone.org/sexRole_3.htm   (14894 words)

  
 Broadmining: SEX
The second clear fact about human sex and gender is that a significant proportion of the human population is discordant at some levels of this paradigm, meaning that many people do not have every single biological, psychological, behavioral, and social characteristic in the same column.
In contrast to the small percentage of people with biological discordances of sex, a fairly large proportion of human beings may be "discordant" in one or more behavioral or psychological dimensions.
It shows the man with broader shoulders (sex dimorphism) and the woman in clothing that is in the western world rarely worn by men, a dress (which functions as a gender signal).
http://lowide.com/SEX   (1732 words)

  
 Pediatric Ethics And The Surgical Assignment Of Sex
Pediatric Ethics and the Surgical Assignment of Sex
Pediatric Ethics And The Surgical Assignment Of Sex
Because this evidence is lacking, the surgical assignment of sex remains an experimental procedure: one in which the results cannot be properly assessed until at least 20 years after the intervention.
http://www.hawaii.edu/PCSS/online_artcls/intersex/ethics.html   (7208 words)

  
 The Gay and Lesbian Vaishnava Association, Inc: Hinduism, Hare Krishna, Homosexuality
From the sex differentiation and behavior of the smallest microbes to Homo sapiens and the role of environmental estrogen-mimicking compounds in the biosphere, the biological mechanisms of sex and sex-related behavior are extremely well understood, often in great detail, in the scientific community.
Their behavior and response is in fact normal heterosexual dimorphic behavior, but because of their anatomy they are considered a same-sex pair.
There is social and sex signaling in most species of animals, especially in social animals like the great apes and man. In these species, sex-dimorphic behavior is programmed into individuals so that both sexes will be able to function as a social group in order to reproduce and sustain the species.
http://www.galva108.org/modernbio.html   (7208 words)

  
 Sex Determination
Since dermatoglyphics are determined early in fetal life and are not subject to change, these findings are consistent with (but do not prove) a biological contribution to sexual orientation which occurs very early in prenatal life.
One of the earliest successful explanations of sex determination is the Balance Theory of Bridges which was based on a triploid fertile female.
There were likely to be a number of genes in the sex determining pathway, any of which could assume a controlling role.
http://www.washburn.edu/cas/biology/twolf/sexdet~1.htm   (5240 words)

  
 Talk:Sex and intelligence - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Yes, what you are meaning is "Sex and intelligence", if you want the page to be about the debate over whether there are biological differences in intelligence between men and women (the NPOV notice is because the page doesn't actually even acknowledge there is a debate).
Gender is something other than sex (gender is a social construction, sex is a biological construction), and most people past the fifth grade can say the word "sex" without necessarily thinking it has to do with intercourse.
Consider their statement "Contrary to these assertions, our meta-analyses show that the sex difference on the Progressive Matrices is neither non-existent nor 'trivially small' and certainly not '1-2 IQ points either way', that is, in favour of men or women.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Sex_and_intelligence   (1529 words)

  
 issues-explain.doc
The theory of sex role socialisation links with the theory of biological determinism because, by focusing on sex roles, it reinforces difference based on biology.
Related reading: Education Queensland 1996 Piecing It Together: Understanding the construction of gender (Training Module) Biological Determinism This explanation of gender is based on the belief that all differences between men and women result from biology - the ‘anatomy is destiny’ argument.
For these reasons, biological determinism has the potential to undermine school behaviour management programs.
http://education.qld.gov.au/students/advocacy/equity/gender-sch/docs/issues-explain.doc   (1719 words)

  
 Sex determination in Hymenoptera
While in recent years evidence has mounted that a great number of biological pathways are conserved across the animal kingdom, one developmental process which for the most part has evaded this grand display of commonality is that of sex determination, which in contrast seems to have evolved rather rapidly (Marín and Baker, 1998).
Regardless of such homologies, it seems clear that the sex determination systems of the Hymenoptera reflect in many ways the peculiar life histories and conditions of individual species.
This information, which locates loci near the sex determining locus, sheds little light on sex determination, but may be useful for future studies.
http://www.sccs.swarthmore.edu/users/99/mahowald/hymenoptera.html   (4726 words)

  
 Intersexuality in America
The dimorphism of sex is the idea that biological sex has two forms accepted by society as ‘normal’.
The way American culture treats intersexuals can be contrasted with other cultures, based on its conception of sex as binary and dimorphic.
The concept of dimorphic sex and gender is the basis on which doctors explain the use of surgery to perform sex assignment.
http://www.rodgers75.com/ms/SOS.htm   (4726 words)

  
 Sex-selective abortion and infanticide - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
If the biological parents want their infant child of an undesired sex out of their home but yet allow the infant to live, then they give away the child for adoption or export for foreign adoption.
Sex-selective infanticide appears to have been practiced at various times in Chinese history such as the Qing dynasty due to population pressures.
Like the Chinese, the Indians also use the postnatal alternative, which is sex-selective infanticide.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_selective_abortion   (1147 words)

  
 Sex Differences in Intelligence: Implications for Education - Questia Online Library
Others have argued that the biological and social variables that vary as a function of one's sex are a critically important area of psychological inquiry, and, for this reason, comparisons between females and males should become a routine part of scientific reports (Eagly, 1990, 1994).
Some authors prefer to differentiate between the terms sex and gender, using sex to refer to biologically mediated differences and gender to refer to socially mediated differences.
Sex differences in intelligence is among the most politically volatile topics in contemporary psychology.
http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=96545507   (799 words)

  
 Reason: Taking Science Seriously: Conservative dogma about sex roles ignores inconvenient realities
The feminist denial of biological differences between the sexes can be downright hilarious.
Perhaps more important, nearly all sex differences are characterized by vast overlap: Generally, a trait more typical of one sex will occur in the other sex 35 percent to 45 percent of the time.
In some quarters itÂ’s still a dogma that all sex differences in social roles, behavior, and attitudes are the result of the "social construction of gender."
http://www.reason.com/0408/co.cy.taking.shtml   (1124 words)

  
 Androgyny RAQ: The Angel's Dictionary
A person whose biological sex is not readily apparent, whether owing to chance or choice (see 'genderfuck').
Sex is a set of biological differences between people; gender is a set of social statuses built on the backs of those differences.
A pre-op transsexual is someone who has begun the procedure to reassign the sex, but has not had the surgery.
http://www.chaparraltree.com/raq/angels.shtml   (1124 words)

  
 the evangelical outpost: Let’s Think About Sex:
Sex Education Programs and Critical Moral Reasoning
When I was in school sex education was simply a biological description of the sexual act, the pregnancy/birth process, sexually transmitted diseases and physical changes that occur during puberty (in the early grades version).
Once the purpose of sex is clarified, the student should be able to determine what virtues correspond to sexual behaviors.
The sex ed was jointly taught by a secular teacher and a priest.
http://www.evangelicaloutpost.com/archives/001061.html   (10157 words)

  
 Sex, Sex Roles and Family
We will analyze the patterns of sex roles, sexual practices, and kinship by examining particular cultural constructs of family, masculinity, and femininity in various contexts.
The anthropological views on these subjects often contrast with commonly held beliefs about what it means to be a woman or a man, and challenges the view that gender roles are biological, natural, and universal.
This course introduces anthropological perspectives on sex, sexuality, gender relations, family, and kinship.
http://www.dac.neu.edu/womens.studies/soa1160.htm   (1163 words)

  
 Sex - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Discordances between the biological and psychosocial levels, such as when the gender identity does not match the anatomic sex, or between the various psychosocial levels, such as when the gender role does not match the gender identity, are even more common, but less well understood, generally speaking.
An example of this in the article pictogram shows the man with broader shoulders (sex dimorphism) and the woman in clothing that is, in the western world, rarely worn by men, and which functions as a gender signal.
The female sex is defined as the one which produces the larger gamete (i.e., reproductive cell) and which typically bears the offspring.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex   (1657 words)

  
 Gender and Sex Roles
Yet, many others still argue that all psychological differences between the sexes lie in upbringing.
To fulfill different biological roles, it is obvious that women and men must be biologically different.
There are obvious biological differences between men and women, and many argue that the many evident psychological differences might just be caused by the biological differences.
http://academics.tjhsst.edu/psych/oldPsych/ch14-2   (982 words)

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