Biological definition of female sex: Can get pregnant, but only when eggs are fertilized by male. Biological definition of male sex: Cannot get pregnant, but are necessary to fertilize females to pregnancy.
The definitive sex organs are those that are involved in the above. Charles From: Carrol Cox As Gould explains, _some_ of the sexual organs are identical in both "sexes," merely differently developed. Others are different from the beginning. If we focus on the first set, then biologically we have to assume one sex, with variation (or as Lauer put it in Body and sex from the Greeks to Freud_, the one-sex model prevailed from the time of Aristotle up to the end of the 18th-c. The difference (according to ancient and medieval medicine, was that men were more fully 'cooked.' The two-sex model of the last two centuries has no better 'scientific' basis than did the one-sex model of Aristotle et al. I haven't looked up the specific reference to Yoshie raghu gives, but I know that she has argued vigorously in many contexts for a one-sex/many gender model of human sexuality. It is convincing to me. There are others that go further than Yoshie, denying that sex is any more "biological" than gender. But in any case, gender is not bioological, nor is it biology 'socially" understood. It is a purely social reality. Carrol _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
