Table of contents

Introduction

Differentiating between sex and gender

Different approaches towards studying gender and gender identity

Complexity of gender and gender identity

Researching sex and gender

Descriptive Data

Predictive Data

Explanatory Data

Archival Research

Research Ethics

Biological sex and intersexuality

Typical sex development

Sex chromosomes

Gestational period

Wollfian and Müllerian ducts

Sex hormones

Stages of fetal development

Intersexuality

Hermaphroditism

Chromosomal abnormalities

Klinefelter’s syndrome

Turner’s syndrome

Trisomy X syndrome

Super male syndrome

Hormonal abnormalities

Androgen insensitivity syndrome

Congenital adrenal hyperplasia

Theories on development

Psychoanalytic Approaches 

Freud-Psychosexual stages of development

Horney-emphasis on social values; womb envy

Social and Cognitive Theories

Bandura-Social Learning Theory

Kohlberg-Cognitive Developmental Theory

 Bem-Gender Schema Theory

Gender Dysphoria

Gender stereotypes

Sources of modern gender stereotypes

The Cult of True Womanhood

Masculine Ideology

Function of gender stereotyping

Revising modern gender stereotypes

Gender and marketing

Introduction

Method

Design

Procedure

Results

References

Gender identity and sexuality

Biological sex

Intersexuality