CLA232H1 Lecture : 2012-02-27_Lecture#12-Men and Women.docx
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We divide the world between male and female; men and women: what makes a man a man is not a woman. Greeks formulated the distinction between male and female. Sex anatomical male and femaleness (sex) [reproductive organs: uterus female, testes male, something that you were born with (physis) [look up] The way that society interprets for the physical anatomical difference-that matters. How does society interpret: women carry children for 9 months women are more nurturing women should stay at home women should not have careers. Raw data of biology (gender: social interpretation of sex. Theogany (origins of the difference between men and women) Human existence is defined not only in contrast to the gods but also defined in contrast to women. Man is not created but women were definitely created. Her creation set definition of what was masculinity. In both theogany and works/days, the birth of pandora is tied to the story of.
