Women's Studies 1020E Study Guide - Homophile, Pseudohermaphroditism, Betty Friedan
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In this case, little, if any, explanatory weight is given to psychological, sociological or cultural explanations: make us what we are, for example women are biological, e. x. the fact that women are nurturing or men are always aggressive (defining characteristic) is essentialism or universalism because we make large generalizing statements about things, women are genetically attracted to the color pink, while men are attracted to green & blue because women pick berries while boys think the sky and grass are calming symbols. Intersectionality: norms of gender can change across time and culture, our biological sex is an essential fact, gender and sex are different sex refers to being born with a vagina or penis, kimberle crenshaw adds to the constructionist approach an understanding of how various cultural categories and different axes of identity like gender, race, class, ability and sexual orientation interact on multiple levels.