SOC265H1 Lecture Notes - Statistical Hypothesis Testing, Reductionism, Social Inequality
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The sexed body: biology and the question of difference: sex and the sexed body. The standard of living we have in canada is depended on the standard living of the rest of the world (poverty) Biology is given by nature, while gender is socially created, and the way you were treated socially shapes you. Bodies are not just given, they are social processes and behaviours shapes it. Nature does not give us binary sexes (intersexes, not distinctly male or female) The one-sex model (1870s ended: women as inferior men; essentially the same model. Male and females had the same bodies. Greek culture women were seen as the same as men but lesser to some degree. Women are all inside and upside down. Gender as given" by nature and sex as social or changeable. Social and changeable, bodies were adaptations of your social role. Myths, people decide to change their gender roles and their bodies change.
