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    SEX AND GENDER: IN SEARCH OF DEFINITIONS

    Prepared by Noelle Leslie dela Cruz, Ph.D. Philosophy Department, De La Salle University

    What do we mean by woman? What do we mean by man?

    What is a woman?

    Reese Witherspoon as Elle Woods in Legally Blonde

    What is a woman?

    Hillary Rodham Clinton, US Secretary of State

    What is a woman?

    Roonie Mara as Lisbeth Salander in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

    What is a woman?

    Mulan

    What is a woman?

    Darna

    What is a woman?

    Lara Croft

    What is a woman?

    Marilyn Monroe

    What is a woman?

    Jacqueline Kennedy

    What is a woman?

    Thomas Beattie, a female-to-male transsexual who had borne three children

    What is a woman?

    Brandon Teena, a pre-operative transgender who was murdered for his gender identity in 1993

    What is a man?

    BB Gandanghari (formerly known as Rustom Padilla)

    What is a man?

    Marilyn Manson

    What is a man?

    Daniel Craig as 007

    What is a man?

    Jeremy Renner as Sgt. William James in The Hurt Locker

    What is a man?

    Boy George

    What is a man?

    Arnold Schwarzenegger as the Terminator

    What is a man?

    Vice Ganda

    What is a man?

    Robin Padilla

    What is a man?

    Jim Parsons as Sheldon Cooper in The Big Bang Theory

    What is a man?

    Ian McKellen

    Some basic concepts

    Sex - A biological term which (1) refers to the act of mating between two organisms, or coitus, or (2) the categorization of human beings based on reproductive function, usually male and female (Eviota 1994: 1)

    Anne Fausto-Sterlings five sexes proposal


    Many other bodies

    Female body

    True hermaphrodite

    Male body

    Ferms (Female pseudohermaphrodites)

    Merms (Male pseudohermaphrodites)

    Not included in the chart: Asexual bodies

    Some basic concepts

    Gender - The differentiated social roles, behaviors, capacities, and intellectual, emotional, and social characteristics attributed by a culture to women and men besides the strictly biological (Eviota 1994: 4)

    Some basic concepts

    Sexual orientation - A term used to denote the sex or sexes one is attracted to, sexually and romantically
    Heterosexual - A person who is predominantly sexually attracted to the opposite sex Homosexual - A person who is predominantly sexually attracted to the same sex Bisexual - A person who is sexually attracted to both sexes

    (Caroll and Wolpe 1996: 234-5)

    Some basic concepts


    American biologist Alfred Kinsey, a pioneer in the scientific study of human sexuality, was known for the Kinsey scale, which represents a continuum of sexual behavior

    References

    Sex and Gender in Philippine Society ed. by Elizabeth Eviota, 1994 Sexuality and Gender in Society by Janet Carroll and Paul Root Wolpe, 1996

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