SOC275H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Carol Tavris, Gayle Rubin, Law Of Excluded Middle
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When people think of gender, they likely think of women first. This is because men are the invisible normative gender. Youtube video the flip side - @ the gym. What is the nature of the relationship between gender. In other words, what is the relationship between difference and dominance: the differences between men and women lead to unequal power differences and social relation differences. Biological determinism (nature) vs. differential socialization (nurture) Gender sociohistoricocultural (social): masculine, feminine: there"s this idea that gender arises on the bass of underlying sexual differences, but we have come to critique this and develop larger ways of looking at gender. We can critique sex, gender, and the relationship between them. Complete bifurcation of biological and of social human experience: the so-called interplanetary theory of gender difference . We end up trying to compartmentalize human experience into two counts men and women. One of the readings suggests we should have at least 5 sexes then.
