SCLG1002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Instrumentalism, John Gagnon, Unequal Exchange
26 Jul 2018
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From the moment we are born, we are understood and treated as male or female. Sexual identity underpins a range of legal, social and political rights, entitlements and obligations (evans 1993). Most research focuses on one or two of these dimensions at a time, and there is no necessary relationship between them. As gayle rubin has pointed out, although sex and gender are related, they are not the same thing, and they form the basis of two distinct arenas of social practice". Sigmund freud laid its foundations when he argued that the terms masculinity" and femininity" had three different types of meaning biological, psychological and sociological and that human sexuality was formed more within social (familial) relationships than derived from biology. John money began using the term gender" in 1955 to refer to the sexual identity of patients with indeterminate genital organs.
