Prompt: locate at least one way that "The Five Sexes" and “Doing Gender” relate to each other. This can be a theory that is identified in one and built upon in the other, a term that is defined in one and expanded in the other, or any way that you can identify an interconnection between one moment in each text. Alternatively, you can draw a connection between the "big picture" level, just make sure you use an example from each to back up your claim.
Then, come up with one way that one of the readings relates to one of the TED Talks you watched.
(“Understanding the Complexities of Gender,” “Ending Gender” and “Violence Against Women- It’s a Men’s Issue”)
In Doing Gender and The Five Sexes, both writings dissect gender indoctrination upon conception. The Five Sexes proposes a new method of categorizing gender. Creating more options creates a larger palette from which people can identify with. Specific cases this re-formation could be useful would be when gender of an intersexual newborn has been decided based on what made the most medical sense at the time of conception, specifically in performing the assignment procedure. Then the parents were to raise the child based on what was decided by the surgeons. Most people born intersexual; meaning having physiologically ambiguous genitalia; would react “successfully" by following traditional gender structure and stereotypes in to young adulthood. However, by age twenty-five, many of these now adults would face identity crises. It was typical in these cases for the person to change their gender and live their lives according to how they felt internally.
In The Five Sexes, Fausto-Sterling states that: “All that and more amply explains why intersexual children are generally squeezed into one of the two prevailing sexual categories” (p. 7). This exact sentiment is punctuated in the opening statement of Understanding the Complexity of Gender, a TED Talk presentation by Sam Killermann. Killermann illustrates that how gender is discussed is a “limited concept of a concept that is truly unlimited”. We fall into two categories. Boy line up on the left. Girls line up on the right. There are only two options to describe every person in the world. “Seven billion identities simplified into two.”
Doing Gender breaks down the details of sex-role socialization and categorization. Written by Candace West and Don Zimmerman, it states: “gender is a socially scripted dramatization of the culture's idealization of feminine and masculine natures, played for an audience that is well schooled in the presentational idiom.” To further illustrate this concept, Sam Killermann uses Shakespeare’s famous quote “All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players.”
Then, come up with one way that one of the readings relates to one of the TED Talks you watched.
(“Understanding the Complexities of Gender,” “Ending Gender” and “Violence Against Women- It’s a Men’s Issue”)
In Doing Gender and The Five Sexes, both writings dissect gender indoctrination upon conception. The Five Sexes proposes a new method of categorizing gender. Creating more options creates a larger palette from which people can identify with. Specific cases this re-formation could be useful would be when gender of an intersexual newborn has been decided based on what made the most medical sense at the time of conception, specifically in performing the assignment procedure. Then the parents were to raise the child based on what was decided by the surgeons. Most people born intersexual; meaning having physiologically ambiguous genitalia; would react “successfully" by following traditional gender structure and stereotypes in to young adulthood. However, by age twenty-five, many of these now adults would face identity crises. It was typical in these cases for the person to change their gender and live their lives according to how they felt internally.
In The Five Sexes, Fausto-Sterling states that: “All that and more amply explains why intersexual children are generally squeezed into one of the two prevailing sexual categories” (p. 7). This exact sentiment is punctuated in the opening statement of Understanding the Complexity of Gender, a TED Talk presentation by Sam Killermann. Killermann illustrates that how gender is discussed is a “limited concept of a concept that is truly unlimited”. We fall into two categories. Boy line up on the left. Girls line up on the right. There are only two options to describe every person in the world. “Seven billion identities simplified into two.”
Doing Gender breaks down the details of sex-role socialization and categorization. Written by Candace West and Don Zimmerman, it states: “gender is a socially scripted dramatization of the culture's idealization of feminine and masculine natures, played for an audience that is well schooled in the presentational idiom.” To further illustrate this concept, Sam Killermann uses Shakespeare’s famous quote “All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players.”