SOCA01H3 Chapter 8: chapter 8 soca01
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Sex: determination of male or female on the basis of a set of socially agreed-upon biological criteria. Gender: social distinction between masculinity and feminity. Gender is also binary construction as it can be understood between masculinity and feminity. Emily martin: demonstrates how scientists draw on discourses of gender to explain conception. Ioc , 2004 made a policy that allowed the instance of transsexual athletes to compete: undergone surgical reassignment, must be legally recognized and completed horomone therapy. Caster e(cid:373)e(cid:374)(cid:455)a"s competed in the world athletics championships, and was asked to submit gender veritifcation to shoe she was female but the result was not made public and she kept gold. But it was not revealed if she (cid:272)ould (cid:272)o(cid:373)pete i(cid:374) the futu(cid:396)e as a(cid:863)fe(cid:373)ale(cid:863) Both these cases shows the social process involved in determining who is a man and who is a women and how our social categories of gender render particular bodies as unintelligible.
