Gender and Contemporary Society
Critical Thinking Skill:
Summary
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answers the question What?
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main idea and examples
Thesis: "I am not saying that
physical differences between male and female bodies don't exist, but that
these differences are socially meaningless until social practices transform
them into social facts."
Judith
Lorber, "Believing Is Seeing" 18
Examples:
biology
sports
technology
military
"bathroom problem"