SOC 2112 Lecture 8: SOC 2112 - week 8
22 Nov 2016
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Sex refers to the biological characteristics of women and men. One"s biological status ans either male or female. Is associated primarily with physical attributes (chromosomes, hormone prevalence, and external and internal anatomy) Gender refer to the roles and characteristics society a signed to men and women. Ones is not born but becomes a woman (the second sex) One of the slogans of 1960s feminism was biology is not destiny". There is nothing natural/biological about gender stereotypes (girls playing with barbie"s, boys playing with trucks) How do these gender characteristics help to keep women down. Maybe these characteristic aren"t as natural as we thought, and help keep everyone"s place in society. Main argument: women has been in historically enduring unequal relationships to man, ie. as the second sex and thus as the other. Is her attempt to explain a broad reason for sexual inequality. Question: what is a women?" women is a womb".
