HIS202H1 Lecture : Lecture #10.docx
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Describes how recent these decisions to be against race actually are. Just as there emerged new ways of forming anti-racist arguments : there were new ways of arguing against naturalness of male-female split. In the early 20thc: the term sex covered a range of phenomena. Traits, attitudes, and behaviors associated with men and women. Erotic acts (sex itself, sexuality: despite pliability of the term (the word sex): Traits known as masculine and feminine said to spring from the biological processes that divided male and female: how sexed bodies came into being (the male and female division): Victorian male scientist perceived women"s bodies to be feminine" down to the last details: until quite recently: Sex-gender-sexuality were often confused or conflated (even within the sciences) Not yet understood or defined as separate domains of scientific studies: middle of the 20thc. Various experts begin to disentangle sex" into several separate domains of study and analysis.
