ANT100Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Simone De Beauvoir
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As an anthropologist, i am intrigued by the possibility that culture shapes how biological scientists describe what they discover about the natural world. 1991: 485): when reading a biology book, you are learning about your cultural beliefs when biology books are supposed to teach you about the natural words. In a biology book, you are leaning about cultural beliefs and practices as if they were a part of nature: gender: a cultural construct of biological sex. Values, norms and attitudes that define what it is to be a men/women in a specific culture: sex: biological characterization based primarily on reproductive potential, common argument: sex causes gender. Or gender is a natural to extension of sex/who we are biologically: but not everyone is clearly born as a male/female. 1/100 babies are neither male nor female cuz of chromosomal, hormonal or genital issues.
