Outline 1:
Part I: Theories and Terminology (Introduction)
I. Gender
•
a
)
Men and Women before the invention of
Gender (Antiquity-17
th
Century)
•
Women viewed as
incomplete or
underdeveloped men (there is no biological
understanding of Sex)
•
Aristotle (384-322 BC)= Women had low
temperatures and could not grow genitals
•
Religion: Adam & Eve (Eve is a part of Adam)
•
b) Emergence of
“biological” gender (18
th
-20
th
Centuries)
•
Despite the liberalizing effects of the
Enlightenment and Revolutionary Era
,
the
argument for inferiority and the denial for equal
rights could be based on scientific principle
•
Since the 19
th
Century, folks assumed that both
gender-role and biological gender were
mutually inclusive (or one-in-the same).
c) Biological gender vs. “gender role”
•
The male gender is identified as having both a
penis and a Y Chromosome while the female sex
or gender is determined by their absence
•
Is “gender role” or identity determined by this
biological difference?
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- Spring '11
- john
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