Define gender as complex and fluid cultural expectations

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Anthropologist Margaret Mead studied sex and gender and the role of culture. Anthropologists now define gender as the complex and fluid cultural expectations about how to perform that identity in appropriate way. Think over the entire semester, describe an additional concept that is often thought to be based on only biology, but is actually defined by each culture.

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