The place I chose to observe was the Recreation Center here at Illinois State University. I observed the second floor of the building on February 17, 2014. I went around 2:00 P.M in the afternoon, and at this time it is usually pretty crowded. Most of the people there were men but there were definitely a good amount of women there as well. If I had to give a percentage it would probably be 60/40% ratio of Men/Female. In this setting, the main focus is for people to come in and workout. Many people
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or nurture. Gender identity is the acceptance of ones membership into a certain group of people. How an individual perceives themselves male or female is considered gender identity. Hormones play a major role in a person’s life; it affects their sex in two ways. Hormones affect the development from the time a person is conceived until they have grown into sexual maturity. Sexual maturity of anatomical, physiological, and behavioral traits determine a person as a male or female by activating the
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marks) Biological sex is determined by genes, which are on chromosomes. Humans generally have 23 pairs of chromosomes, one pair of which determines sex. Females have an XX pair while males have an XY pair. Chromosomal sex largely controls how masculine or feminine the egg's development will be. Chromosomal sex controls whether an embryo will develop ovaries or testes. The SRY gene on the Y chromosome which only males possess will cause the gonad (the organ which produces sex cells) to develop
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Discourse and gender Early work in the analysis of gender and discourse looked at the relationship between the use of language and the biological category of sex. Gender as a social category has come to be seen as highly fluid, or less well defined than in once appeared. In line with gender theory more generally, researchers interested in language and gender have focused increasingly on plurality and diversity among female and male language users, and on gender as performativity (something that
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Primate Size and Sexual Dimorphism Sexual Dimorphism in Primate Evolution by J. Michael Plavcan and Correlates of Sexual Dimorphism in Primates: Ecological and Size Variables by Walter Leutenegger and James Cheverud are very similar articles for their respective journals, but do come to a major disagreement within their articles. The agreements come when discussing which primates are monogamous and polygynous, why this is the case, and why sexual dimorphism will continue at a forever-growing
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Coren L. Apicella, A. D. (2008, November). Testosterone and financial risk preferences. Retrieved March 10, 2013, from Evolution & Human Behavior: http://www.ehbonline.org/article/S1090-5138(08)00067-6/fulltext Daniel Amen, M. (2012). Understand What Sex Does to Your Brain. Retrieved March 11, 2013, from Men's Health:
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But is she right when she proclaims “The End of Men”? Hanna Rosin builds up her article in order to convince her readers that women are playing an increasingly influential role in society and are ultimately replacing men’s status as the dominant sex. She does this by referring to developments in the job market, in education and politics and in the pop industry. In all these important fields she sees a tendency towards female power. Her argument is initially built on facts, “Earlier this year
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she makes use of facts and numbers. These facts will have big cultural consequences which she clearly points out: the balance power between the genders will change. In this modern post-industrial society people now get the opportunity to choose the sex of their child. Most people choose to get a girl because the opinion about the fact that girls do better than boys. But why? Rosin seem to know the answer to that question. “The reasons behind this shift are obvious. As
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Who Gets to Stay on the Lifeboat? Consider the example of a lifeboat with a capacity of 50 persons. The ship is sinking and there are not enough lifeboats. You are safe on a lifeboat filled to capacity, but there are still 100 people in the water. What do you do? All need to get into the lifeboat, or they will not survive. But, the lifeboat is full. Who should stay and who should go, and why? What criteria do we use to make decisions in a world of limited resources? There are many different ways
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Phallacy In 411 B.C. Aristophanes’ Lysistrata, a Greek play where women use sex as power to negotiate a peace treaty, was performed in Athens with only male actors. However, the protagonist, Lysistrata, is a heroine. A great majority of the cast consists of female roles, but were all played by men. Aristophanes used many different theatrical techniques of the time to fruitfully project the fallacy of the dominant phallus in Lysistrata’s comedic reversal of power. Aristophanes’ satirizes phallic
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