SOC359H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Menstruation, Biological Determinism, Collen
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Lecture 3: review of last week, sex and gender, the relationship to each other, define biological determinism as it relates to sex, examples from reproductive biology. Last week: talked about the social construction of gender in work and citizenship. Sex and gender: sex: denotes a distinction between males and females that depend on biological factors such as, hormones, genitals, chromosomes, stature, gender: distinction between men and women based on social factors, clothes, jobs, non-occupational roles. It brought a theory that god (based on christian principles) created homunculus (a little person) inside a sperm. If we value reproductive functions as a part of reaching adulthood later age than for women. 3: this is part of the notion of devaluation of women as they age, we read fertility and youthful beauty as reproductive capability, the value of reproductive capacity is unequally applied to men and women.
