On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 10:09 AM, Carrol Cox <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. >
This reminds me of a short lesson I received from Yoshie Furuhashi (formerly of PEN-L) a few years back on the theory of gender identities: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg24634.html _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
