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==Revision of Gender ==
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I am no longer editing here. [[User:Timothy Perper|Timothy Perper]] 23:47, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
Here's the start of a proposed revision of this short article. (From [[Gender]].)
 
== Gender==
Among sexologists and scholars of sexuality and gender, "gender" characteristically refers to
 
'''(1)''' the internal psychological experience of being female or male (or neither) in one's own society and one's own personal history or biography.
 
'''(2)''' a set of socially and culturally defined and shared roles, rules, and scripts for how to be male or female in a specified society at a specifed time in its history.<ref name="FrDict">Francoeur, Robert F., Martha Cornog, Timothy Perper, and Norman A. Scherzer, Editors. (1995). "The Complete Dictionary of Sexology, New Expanded Edition." New York: Continuum.</ref>
 
As an internal psychological experience, gender is closely related to the idea of "gender identity," which is the experienced conviction that one ''is'' female or male (or neither).<ref name="FrDict"/> Likewise, the idea of gender is related to what sociologists and social critics call "sex roles," which are the ''normative'' activities assigned socially to women and to men in a given society and time.<ref name="Seward">Seward, Georgene H. and Robert C. Williamson, Editors. (1970). "Sex Roles in Changin]g Society." NY: Random House. A classical reference with ground-breaking essays by a number of scholars.</ref> The notion of gender is distinguished from sex, which refers to one's biological endowments anatomically, physiologically, and reproductively.<ref name="Money1>Reference to come.</ref> Gender has other meanings as well, for example, in linguistics to denote the "gender" of a noun, but this article deals with the word's sexual and social meanings.
 
==Notes and References==
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==See also==
[[Sex]]
 
[[Feminism]]
 
 
== Creation of Sandboxes ==
Tim, here's a sandbox I made for you,  Notice that you can make one any time you like just by going to your user page and typing in the address bar above it - "/Sandbox" (or whatever you want) after your name.  It would look like this <nowiki>http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/User:Timothy_Perper/Sandbox</nowiki>.  Have fun!  [[User:D. Matt Innis|D. Matt Innis]] 07:38, 25 September 2008 (CDT)
==Customs==
One of the first practical considerations is clicking on the history tab, and see who has been working on it and how frequently.  If the entry is quite old, and apparently from an inactive contributor, you probably should go ahead, possibly moving questioned text onto the talk page of the article.
 
If there appears to be a reasonably active contributor, it's best to put a few paragraphs on the talk page on what you propose to do. If there's no response in a few days, go and do them. I've been making, for example, some quite major improvents to [[Vietnam War]], although the person with whom I disagreed (some of the disagreements are on the talk page) is generally believed to have left the project. [[User:Howard C. Berkowitz|Howard C. Berkowitz]] 12:51, 26 September 2008 (CDT)
 
===Question===
I also put some notes on the talk page, but they might be even more appropriate here. Whether in the [[gender]] article or one linked to it, you can start with basic consistent genotype and phenotype of XX and XY chromosomes, without any gender dysphoria.  One of the next informative and challenging things, however, would be a person with an XY genotype, who also has the genetic coding for one of the forms of androgen insensitivity disorder, being born apparently female. I have yet to understand what is done when -- and this has happened -- someone is considered female by family and pediatrician, marries a man in good faith, and the couple, frustrated on not having children, does a genetic analysis and diagnoses the actual genetics. [[User:Howard C. Berkowitz|Howard C. Berkowitz]] 12:51, 26 September 2008 (CDT)

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I am no longer editing here. Timothy Perper 23:47, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

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