SOC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 28: John Money, Orgasm, Femininity
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Dr. john money operated on two-sex model of human body types. One-sex model dominated from ancient greeks until mid 18th century. Female body was its inversion (male body flipped inside out) Lesser, but not so radically different version of men. Two-sex model caused men and women to become radically different creatures. Laqueur: differentiation of bodies prompted changes in ideas about female orgasm. Contemporary concepts of sex and the paradoxes of gender. Essentialism explains social phenomena in terms of natural ones. Born with male parts, you are an absolute man. Fixed, lack of history, absolutism, and biological determinism. Biological determinism explains social behavior in terms of who you are in the natural world. Grosz: the relationship between the natural and social is a mobius strip. Social world makes up outside (culture, experience, and gender) Both are inseparable without even noticing the change. Gender the division of people, behaviors, and institutions into two categories (male and female)
