Richard, sex does not automatically determine gender. Gender is a social construct, sex is a biological construct. I am a woman; I am not a mother. Mothering is a social role apart from sex. Men can be mothers if they want. that is what i said...
bye,
Mine
>But
>gender, I thought, was precisely about how social roles are defined >for
>people according to their sex. Nothing complicated or sinister >here, just
>a simple definition.
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Mine Aysen Doyran
PhD Student
Department of Political Science
SUNY at Albany
Nelson A. Rockefeller College
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Albany, NY 12222