Re:The War over Academic Freedom
by krapp on Friday October 22, 2021 @12:46PM
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>My understanding is that in "queer theory" gender is 100% socially constructed.
Yes. Gender is a social construct. Sex is a biological construct. Sex is not gender, and gender is not sex. They are typically correlated, but are not the same.
>This essentially means "women" are socially constructed.
To a degree, yes. Obviously humans are primates that display sexual dimorphism by which the females of the species ideally possess a vagina, womb and two x chromosomes, along with other attributes differentiating them biologically from males.
But "woman" is an overloaded term which has never exclusively referred to biological sex, but also to the roles, duties and behavior by which societies recognize and classify gender. And the relationship between gender and sex is a cultural, not biological, imperative which can differ from culture to culture, and can change within a culture over time.
Yes. Gender is a social construct. Sex is a biological construct. Sex is not gender, and gender is not sex. They are typically correlated, but are not the same.
>This essentially means "women" are socially constructed.
To a degree, yes. Obviously humans are primates that display sexual dimorphism by which the females of the species ideally possess a vagina, womb and two x chromosomes, along with other attributes differentiating them biologically from males.
But "woman" is an overloaded term which has never exclusively referred to biological sex, but also to the roles, duties and behavior by which societies recognize and classify gender. And the relationship between gender and sex is a cultural, not biological, imperative which can differ from culture to culture, and can change within a culture over time.