HISTORY 3S03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Calisthenics, Rewriting, Senda Berenson Abbott
28 Dec 2016
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Patricia vertinsky (cid:498)the social construction of the gendered body: exercise and the. Since ancient times, female anatomy/physiology has been socially constructed in a: power relations most concretely manifested on the body way which naturalizes female inferiority. Laqueur, making sex: body and gender from the greeks to freud (1990: bodily functions such as menstruation: a narrative of culture in anatomical disguise, what is said about female incapacity is due to menstruation and ability to procreate. Sex differences were first explained entirely on the basis of reproductive organs. Woman a less perfect version of man with limited physical capability female. Androcentrism = male centered frailty: man is the centre of all things and everything else is a deviation. Men and women have the same reproductive organs: on the usefulness of the parts of the body. Lacking heat necessary to push her reproductive organs out.
