GWST 1010 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3-4: Caster Semenya, Judith Lorber, Jeff Lorber

• School: Dalhousie University
• Department: Gender & Women's Studies
• Course: GWST 1010
• Professor: Jacqueline Warwick

Document Summary

Judith lorber, believing is seeing: biology as ideology . Biology and how society views biology and shape the experiences of our bodies. The fact that woman had wombs and menstruated anatomically differentiated them from men and destined them for an entirely different social life from men. Distinguish the distinction between sex and gender . Bodies are shaped into gendered positions by social expectations. Connects to the robert piece, that testosterone connects to masculinity; once you are given a sex, the assigned attributes are assigned. Biology has been used to divide men and women into their gender roles, and divide people in gender hierarchy with men at the top. Neither sex nor gender are pure categories. Yet in western societies, we see two discrete sexes and two distinguishable genders because our society is built on two classes of people, women" and men". Once the gender category is given, the attributes of the person are also gendered: whatever a.