SOCY1024 Final: Complete Gender and Society Final Review Notes - final mark of 4.0!
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William"s research proves how gender as an institution subordinates women: the occurrence of disorders of sexual identity call definitions of sex and gender into question because the fact that humans are born not entirely male or not entirely female, or sometimes with a combination of both sex"s genitals proves that the two definitions we have for sexes are not inclusive of every type of sexual condition humans have, and suggests that we should expand our definition to have new names for those who are born with a sexual identity disorder. Coventry argues we need to expand our definition to recognize these as differences rather than disorders, and, furthermore, reexamine our categorization of the sexes: fausto sterling calls the social effect of reliance on biological arguments about differences between men and women biological determinism which she defines as any theory or ideology that attempts to reduce some type of behavior to unchangeable biological roots.
