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Kimmel Chapter 4 Summary

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In Chapter 4 the author of the book Kimmel talks about psychological perspectives of gender development. In the readings we could see that the author includes some theories that help us to understand how gender development is related to psychological perspectives. In this chapter the author of the book included some of the psychoanalysis done by Freud. It is explained in the readings that gender is acquired and determined by biology because males and females learn to identify the differences of sexes at an early stage. For instance, it is mentioned in chapter 4 that both sexes go through the oral stage which is where gratification is breast feeding. The second stage is anal stage where toddlers learn to control excretions; the last stage is
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