Sex, Culture, And Justice: The Limits Of Choice - Plot & Excerpts
To say that thisFor examples of this process, see Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 694–95; Laura Sanchez and Elizabeth Thomson, ‘‘Becoming Mothers and Fathers,’’ 766; and Pepper Schwartz, Love Between Equals.John Stuart Mill, The Subjection of Women, 127–28.Bourdieu, Masculine Domination, 11–12, 15.is a contingent division is not to say that everyone could in theory have the same genitals, or that there is no biological difference between men and women, but it is to say that differences between genitals need not be socially significant. Christine Helliwell describes a tribe in Indone- sian Borneo, the Gerai, for whom differences in work, not differences in genitals, are the determinants of a system of classification compara- ble to gender.8 Although there are people with different genitals in the Gerai tribe, this fact is not seen as particularly significant, and certainly not as the determinant of gender. While there is a correlation between different genitals and different genders for the Gerai, this correlation is contingent and not necessary.
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