A review of medical data from 1955 to 2000 suggests that approximately what percentage of all live births do not conform to the ideal of absolute sex chromosome, gonadal, genital, and hormonal dimorphism?
Explanation
This question quantifies the prevalence of intersex traits, challenging the idea that biological sex is a simple and absolute binary and demonstrating that a significant number of people are born with bodies that do not fit neatly into male or female categories.
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In the 1982 court case of Susie Phipps, what legal mandate did a 1970 Louisiana law enforce regarding racial designation?
According to the evidence produced by the state in the Susie Phipps court case, what fraction of her ancestry was determined to be black?
What does the text identify as a primary cause for Irish immigrants fleeing to the United States in the 1840s and 1850s?
What is defined as patterns by which racial inequality is structured through key cultural institutions, policies, and systems such as education and health?
Which of the following is listed as an evident outcome of continuing individual and institutional racism in the United States today?
In a 2003 ruling, the New York Court of Appeals ordered the state to increase its annual education budget by up to how much to address funding inequality for New York City schools?
In 2003, what was the average per-student funding for New York City public schools compared to schools in more affluent New York suburbs?
How does the text define 'gender'?
From an anthropological viewpoint, what does the term 'sex' refer to?
On average, how much more do U.S. males weigh compared to U.S. females, according to the text?
How does the text contrast the size difference between male and female humans with that of male and female gorillas?
What is the term anthropologists use to refer to the process by which humans learn to be women and men and what behaviors are perceived as masculine or feminine?
What concept, attributed to Michel Foucault, describes the power of the state to regulate the body, for instance through medical interventions on intersex infants?
According to a 2000 American Academy of Pediatrics policy statement, the birth of a child with ambiguous genitalia constitutes what?
In India, what is the term for the religious followers of the Hindu Mother Goddess Bahuchara Mata, who are often born male but adopt an alternative gender role?
What contemporary term has risen in popular and scholarly usage to refer to gender-variant individuals in some Native North American cultures, replacing the older term 'berdache'?
According to statistics in the text, what is the chance of dying because of pregnancy in sub-Saharan Africa compared to the developed world?
How much faster are young women aged fifteen to twenty-five being infected with HIV/AIDS than men in the same age group, according to the text?
What did anthropologist Sherri Ortner propose in 1974 to explain the apparent universality of male dominance?
In 1974, how did anthropologist Michelle Rosaldo explain the gendered division of power across cultures?
What did Annette Weiner's reexamination of the Trobriand Islands economy reveal about women's roles that Bronislaw Malinowski's original research had missed?
What is the term for an unequal distribution of power in which gender shapes who has access to a group's resources, opportunities, rights, and privileges?
What is the term for a set of cultural ideas, usually stereotypical, about men's and women's essential character that promotes and justifies gender stratification?
What did Emily Martin's research on biology textbooks reveal about the descriptions of the egg and the sperm?
According to statistics cited in the text, what fraction of women in the United States will be abused by an intimate partner in her lifetime?
What percentage of all domestic violence victims are women?
What does the text identify as the strongest risk factor in transmitting violent behavior from one generation to another?
A U.S. Department of Justice study on gender violence on campus reported that young women at college face a greater risk of rape and other sexual assault compared to whom?
In the college study on sexual assault mentioned in the text, what percentage of rapes were committed by someone the victim knew?
In addition to interpersonal forms of violence, what term do anthropologists use for inequalities of wealth, power, and privilege that are stratified by gender and affect victims' health in violent and painful ways?
The grassroots women's organization CO-MADRES in El Salvador initially focused on demanding information about family members but eventually expanded to address what health-related concerns?
According to physical anthropologist Helen Fisher's exploration of romantic love, what set of neurochemicals guides humans through the phases of finding a partner and forming an attachment?
According to scientist Jared Diamond, what makes human sexuality a 'distinct outlier' in the animal kingdom?
What is the term for the scientific study of sexuality that emerged in the late nineteenth century and played a role in establishing heterosexuality as the dominant erotic ideal?
In their study of sexuality and disability, what did Kulick and Rydstrom find was the approach taken toward the erotic lives of severely disabled people in Denmark?
In the study of sexuality among people with severe disabilities in group homes, what was the common practice among staff in Sweden?
In the Flint water crisis, what known neurotoxin leached from aging water pipes into the residents' drinking water?
What are the long-term health effects of lead poisoning, as described in the text?
What is the term for the process where the circulation of water intersects with human systems of power, including dams, pipes, and political allocation of resources?
According to the United Nations and the World Health Organization, how many people in the world lack access to safe drinking water?
The World Health Organization estimates that how many children under age five die each year from using a water source contaminated by fecal matter?
What was the focus of The Harlem Birth Right Project, led by Leith Mullings?
The Harlem Birth Right Project was concerned with previous studies that showed college-educated African American women experienced infant mortality at what rate compared to college-educated white women?
The study of the Harlem community found that heavy pollution, including from a sewage treatment plant and bus depots, contributed to elevating the child asthma rate to how many times the national average?
According to the text, how much more likely are people to die in infancy in low-income countries compared to wealthy countries?
What is the average life span in high-income countries compared to low-income countries, as cited in the text?
Despite there being enough food in the world to feed everyone, what number of people go hungry every day?
According to the World Health Organization, how many children under the age of five are malnourished globally?
Why did anthropologist Neil Smith call Hurricane Katrina an 'unnatural disaster'?