CLA232H1 Lecture : Hesiod - Works and Days

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18 Apr 2011
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Alterity based on gender deeply rooted in society. Masculinity and femininity - mutually defining terms. Sex in the context of male and female anatomical differences: physis = mutual differences, relatively unimportant ~ what"s important is the significance given by our society. Society takes in these physiological aspects / differences and adds in these characteristics. Gender social facts that revolve around male and female: nomos = cultural significance / conventions that define one as male or female, e. g. , manly, demure, proud, caring, etc. Bouvoir: one is not born a woman, one becomes a woman. : fully a woman once you take in attributes of female gender. To the greeks, gender is a difference and hierarchy. One extant female greek author sappho. Woman artificial, created by gods her creation says something about man. Man has always been there, never created. No: blamed for the fact that they have to procreate (the cause of problem = mortality)

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