What is Gender:
Gender is a word that refers to the type, class, lineage or lineage to which a set of things or beings that have the same nature belong, that is, they share elements such as genesis, form and/or characteristics.
The word comes from Latin genus and -eris, with the same meaning. Its use is quite wide. What has been said implies that we can talk about gender in relation to different subjects, such as biology, arts, literature, social sciences, etc. Let’s see what each of these and other uses refer to.
Gender in biology
The word gender is used in biology within the context of taxonomyresponsible for classifying life forms and their evolution, based on morphological and functional characteristics that reflect the existence of common and close ancestors.
Within this discipline, genus refers to one of the taxonomic classifications of living beings, located between the family and the species. For example, homo sapiens is the name of the human species that belongs to the genus homowhat does it mean human.
Regarding living beings with sexual reproduction systems, such as humans and some animals, biology determines the existence of two basic genders, according to the type of reproductive organ or genitals that the individual has: the Female gender and the male gender.
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Gender in the social sciences
Currently, the social sciences make a distinction between the biological concept of sex feminine and masculine, and the cultural concept of genderwhich gives rise to the discussion about the gender identity.
Therefore, as for human beings, a distinction is made between sex and gender. This results from the study of human and social behavior, which has revealed a separation between biologically assigned sex and psychologically and socially assumed gender (role).
The term “sex” is used to refer to the strictly physiological dimension (female or male reproductive organs). The term “gender” refers to the sexual identity of the person, that is, the role with which they identify based on the experience of their sexuality.
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Grammatical gender
In Spanish grammar, gender applies to nouns, adjectives, articles and pronouns, to classify them into three groups: masculine, feminine or neuter.
Gender Nouns Articles Adjectives Pronouns
Female house the pretty one/them/you
Male bank he/the handsome he/they/you
Neutral how big it/it/nothing/something
It is necessary to note that in Spanish grammar there is no identity or equivalence between grammatical gender and sexual gender.
See also Grammar.
Literary genres
In literature, the literary genre refers to the different forms of classification of written texts according to their structure, form and content. Among the most important we can point out the following:
Narrative genres: epic, epic, story, novel, fable, legend.
Lyric: epic poem, ode, elegy, song, hymn, eclogue, epigram, romance, sonnet, madrigal.
Drama: tragedy, comedy, tragicomedy, auto sacramental, hors d’oeuvres, farce, melodrama.
Didactic or expository genres: essay, chronicle, oratory, treatise, dialogue, epistle or letter, biography.
Artistic genres
In the arts, the term genre is used to identify and classify the various types of aesthetic expressions within a specific discipline (music, plastic arts, cinema, etc.) that exist according to the genesis, form and style they share.
Musical genres
Some examples of musical genres are: pop, rock, heavy metal, hip hop, funk, reggae, Dominican merengue, salsa, flamenco, tango, fado, joropo, mariachi, cumbia, vallenato, bossa nova, new wave and many others.
Film genres
Some examples of film genres are: documentaries, dramas, musicals, westerns, police films, action films, romantic films, comedies, science fiction, horror, animation, among others.
Pictorial genres
Among the most notable we can mention: the portrait genre; landscape; historical, mythological or religious paintings; still lifes and “genre” painting (representation of everyday scenes), among others.
Gender in video games
The video game They are also classified by genre according to their content, structure and type of interaction. There are the following genres of video games: adventure, platform, action, arcade, sports, graphic adventure, racing, mental agility or puzzles, educational, children’s, role-playing, etc.
Gender in topology
In topology, the number of closed curves that do not intersect on a surface is known as a surface genus. There is the arithmetic gender and the geometric genusdepending on the type of calculation performed.