PHIL 2170 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Socalled, Bell Hooks, Heterosexism
2 Apr 2014
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Fausto-sterling maintains that european and american culture is deeply devoted to the. 1. idea that there are only two sexes (31). However, she also maintains that historically people in these cultures recognized that not all people fit neatly into either category. Rehearse her account of the way that modern science constructed this idea that there are only two sexes and what this has meant for intersexuals. Modern science constructed the idea that there are only two sexes because of language: he/she/it; the opposite sex. Also legal significance (though not in canada anymore, thanks to the charter). The making of the modern intersexual, as biology grew as a discipline, acknowledgement of variation, decisions to understand intersexual births through understanding. The intersexed become defined as pathological and something to be treated as medical technology. Science replaced law and common sense as the classifier of human bodies.
