CLA232H1 Lecture : February 27th Lecture.docx
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Where sex is the anatomical difference between men and women/male and female: this is physis-natural, stuff you re born with, but not every significant/it s not the fundamental difference between people. Gender - social conclusions from sexual differences: gender is nomos, nurture. One is not born a woman, one becomes a woman : because you adopt all these stereotypes. Many things that are nomos are justified by physis. Greeks drew biological differences and then made conclusion about social hierarchy between male and female as well. Everything in the world is created, except man. Man is not created, but women are: creation says something about masculinity. Both theogony and w & d birth/ creation of pandora is tied to permetheus and the sacrifice trick and then the fire stealing, zeus punishes mortals by giving them women. W & d says that she s a curse to man. We need to procreate, unlike the gods.
