WOMENST 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Dominate, Patricia Hill Collins, Determinism
10 Mar 2016
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Women st 1aa3 lecture notes: week 2. Feminisms, hierarchy, difference: key concepts for the course. Sex: what is between the legs reproductive body. A complex interplay of genes hormones, environment and behaviour with loopback effects between bodies and society (judy root aulette and judy wittner, gendered. New sociological research and implications: how do we deicide was is female or male. Alice dreger, professor of clinical medical humanities and bioethics at northwesetern. What is between the two poles are confusing and what separates them is literally how we dress them. Intersex: a person born with ambiguous sexual anatomy, making it difficult to define them as either male or female 2% How many sexes are there? - anne fausto sterling, 1993, two sexes are not. But if the state and legal system has an interest in maintaining only two sexes, our collective biological bodies do not.
