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Counter biological determinism
- The main feminist motivation for making this distinction was to counter biological determinism or the view that biology is destiny.
May 12, 2008 · In feminist philosophy, this distinction has generated a lively debate. Central questions include: What does it mean for gender to be distinct from sex, if anything at all? How should we understand the claim that gender depends on social and/or cultural factors? What does it mean to be gendered woman, man, or genderqueer?
Jan 21, 2011 · Many psychologists, particularly feminist psychologists, have drawn a distinction between the term sex and the term gender. The purposes of this paper were to review the history of this distinction and to illustrate the varied and inconsistent ways in which these terms are used.
- Charlene L. Muehlenhard, Zoe D. Peterson
- 2011
Traditionally, however, a distinction has been made by linguists between sex and gender, where sex refers primarily to the attributes of real-world entities – the relevant extralinguistic attributes being, for instance, male, female, non-personal, and indeterminate sex – and grammatical gender refers to a category, such as masculine ...
Jan 6, 2015 · Although Rubin had analyzed the relation between sex and gender as an interdependence, the great majority of feminist authors in this period defined gender on the basis of sex, as if sex preceded gender temporally—and therefore logically.
Jan 2, 2006 · The conceptual shift from a single essentialist category of “sex” to a binary distinction between “sex” and “gender” did not double the number of concepts receiving scholarly attention. In effect, “gender” replaced “sex” as the salient category in “gender scholarship.”
Dec 3, 2020 · Among the issues addressed in this chapter are the deconstruction of the sex/gender distinction, postcolonial and postmodernist feminist critiques, theories of intersectionality, the emergence of the study of new materialism, and contributions made by transgender theory.
Jan 8, 2014 · Our conversation revealed Goffman to be committed to the study of gender and open to feminist ideas after 1976, but he retained contradictory patriarchal biases that he found difficult to acknowledge.
