Gender As A Socially Constructed Accomplishment1

ender. I often times see people, usually children, and I can't decide whether they or male or female, or should I say masculine or feminine.
             "Then we are uncomfortable until we have successfully placed the other person in a gender status; otherwise, we feel socially dislocated." (Lorber, Night To His Day: The Social Construction of Gender, Page 460)
             In other countries this might not even be the case, some countries have more than two genders. These other genders are often called berdaches, hijras, or xaniths.
             "Some societies have three genders-men, women, and berdaches, or hijras, and xaniths. Berdaches, hijras, and xaniths are biological males who behave, dress, work, and are treated in most respects as social women; they are therefore not men, nor are they female women; they are in our language, 'male-women'." (L
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