WGS160Y1 Study Guide - Domestic Worker, Segway Pt, Comparative Anatomy
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#2 more than skin deep- schiebinger- in this article schiebinger outlines the path of comparative anatomy and outlines its flaws. In the eighteenth century there was a revolution in the scientific views of sexuality. Anatomists were no longer satisfied with the theory of humors, so a new vision for the origins and character of sexual differences, the relation of sex and gender and the presence of sexuality in the body was articulated. The anatomists called for a finer delineation of sexual difference and sex was no longer seen as residing exclusively in the sex organs. Jakob ackermann called for anatomists to discover ?the essential sexual difference? from which all others flow. Sex was no longer limited to reproductive organs and therefore sex was seen to permeate the entirety of the human body. While men and women were seen as perfect in their difference there was a still a hierarchy where men were placed on top.
