Gender System - an educational app

Gender systems are the social structures that establish the number of genders and their associated gender roles in every society. A gender role is "everything that a person says and does to indicate to others or to the self the degree that one is either male, female, or androgynous.

Topics covered in this educational app :

Introdcution

Gender binary

Non-European gender systems

Native American

The Mohave Alyha

Juchitán, Oaxaca, Mexico

Machi (Mapuche Shamans) of Chile

Indian Hindu

Hijras

Sādhin

Brazil

Naples and Southern Italy

Polynesia

Thailand

Philippines

Nigeria

The cultural definition of homosexuality

The Alternative Model of Gender

Gendered violence

Conclusion