SOC 2104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: David Buss, Menopause, Margaret Mead
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On this decision, an indian biologically female athlete with high testosterone sued the. Typical explanations are oppressive and can be used to establish hierarchies. Eve was created out of the rib of adam, an assumption that women are a part of men or. Caster semenya: a intersex (born with both parts) athlete who won multiple olympic medals in track-related sports. It can be seen as an unfair advantage, but also how biology restricts us to a binary. Biological construction of the sexes: biological explanations are prominent in our views on gender difference and gender inequality. Ie, people make assumptions about differences between men and women based on biology. Social and political inequalities flow from biologically based differences between the sexes, these differences can tell us much about our cultures. we chronically owe them something. Prior to the 19th century, most explanations of gender differences were theological. species) challenged theological explanations. Species react to their environment and react to it.
