Re Charles's statement below that gender boundaries can't be crossed. A fairly competent biologist named S.J. Gould, reviewing a book by Thomas Laqueur for NYRB declared flatly that there was no scientific basis for either the one-sex or two-sex models of gender. Parts of the body show that there is only one-sex; other parts show that there are two sexes. So differntiation has to be on social/historical rather than biological arguments.
Carrol On 7/19/2011 8:40 AM, jmp wrote: > > > On 19/07/11 14:27, Jim Devine wrote: >> CB: >>> What gets blurred are gender boundaries. �Sex - male /female - is >>> a biological boundary that so far can't be crossed. Those born male >>> cannot chose to �produce eggs instead of sperm , �and get pregnant. >> >> aren't some people hermaphrodites, etc.? > > Of course. > _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
