perspectives on sex and gender This essay will be looking at the various perspectives on sex and gender, it will then go on to compare and contrast these views and look at the relationships between them. ... In order to answer the question what is an individuals" sex and gender?... Evolutionary psychology perspectives believe that sexual selection can explain sex differences. ... Once we are born the main concern of everyone around us is whether we are male or female, before the birth older siblings may be asked whether they want a brother or sister, there are either boy or girl birth card...

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Sexual misconduct occurs daily and to both sexes; society, however, has preconceptions that such acts only occur to females. ... First, the University of Maryland states that "sexual harassment is an illegal form of sex discrimination. ... Therefore, it is primarily an issue of abuse of power, not sex" ("Sexual"). ... At Brown University, a male student names Adam Lack "was accused of rape even though the woman, who was drunk, initiated the sex. ... Even though the female initiated the sex, the fact that she was drunk caused the male to be at fault. ...

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With the advent of feminism, the organized and self-conscious movement of the 1830's emphasized that women assume a stand against authority and attack the preconceived notion that they were the less of the two sexes. The literary pioneers of this women's movement included: Abigail Adams who had a genius for letter writing, Mercy Otis Warren who was known as the most productive "woman of the American revolution", with works that viewed history and politics as a struggle between liberty and power, and Sarah Moore Grimke who drove one of the first feminist spikes in her essay Letters o...

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." A deep scrutiny of the exclusion of transgenders or their misrepresentation under the protected classes of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 released hot debates on some state courts due to the ambiguity of the term "sex." Furthermore, the emergence of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), its historical creation and revision, as well as its amendment from its predecessor, the Equality Act, dealt with the back and forth inclusion and exclusion of "gender identity." Bender-Baird made clear the far-reaching importance of state and local nondiscrimination laws and individu...

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People in this community, especially sex workers, are at the highest risk for police violence and violence in general.2 To initiate reform and lower the rate of violence in the trans community, detailed reports are used to give accurate data and representation of the problem at hand. ... While laws such as the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) have prohibited sex discrimination in hospitals and health facilities as well as protection of an individual's health information in regards to their transgender status and tradition, and the...

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Elizabeth initially struggled to prove her legitimacy as Queen due to her sex, religion and parents, however through a series of calculated speeches, Elizabeth populized the medieval theory of the king's two bodies, constructing an image of herself, exploiting femininity, and simultaneously exerting power reserved for a male monarch. ... Opening with the acknowledgment that "an unused thing it is that a woman should give public council to men" , she confirms her sex, rather than challenges it, as Elizabeth declares her own "body but of a weak and feeble woman" , and doesn't defy gend...

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But when feminists use the term gender, there are not generally referring to biological differences between men and women, but to set of culturally defined sex characteristics associated with masculinity and femininity. ...

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