Believing Is Seeing:

Abstract

Western ideology takes biology as the cause, and behavior and social statuses as the effects, and then proceeds to construct biological dichotomies to justify the “naturalness” of gendered behavior and gendered social statuses. What we believe is what we see—two sexes producing two genders. The process, however, goes the other way: gender constructs social bodies to be different and unequal. The content of the two sets of constructed social categories, “females and males” and “women and men,” is so varied that their use in research without further specification renders the results spurious.

Memorable First Time Sexual Experiences: Gendered Patterns and Nuances

“…Traditionally, researchers have hypothesized male and female differences and often overemphasized those differences while neglecting to highlight important similarities across gendered identities (Canary & Dindia, 1998;Lorber, 1993). The findings of our study reflect contemporary realities that resist oversimplifications of gendered differences as a binary (Wight et al, 2000).…”

Reflexión crítica frente al neurosexismo

“…Desde la teoría feminista (Lorber, 1993(Lorber, , 1996Fausto-Sterling, 2000) se viene señalando desde hace décadas que ese mismo sustrato biológico es construido según categorías biológicas binarias que no siempre se muestran en los cuerpos de manera obvia, como nos aclara Medina-Vicent (2016). La variación entre sexos no es siempre discreta entre dos posibles modelos obvios (masculino o femenino); sino que los cuerpos ofrecen variaciones que pueden retar esa concepción dicotómica de la linealidad denominada «tres g» (genitales, góna-das, genes) y posibilitar una interpretación del sexo con más posibles modelos humanos (como Fausto-Sterling hace cuando nos propone cinco sexos; 2000), o entendida como un continuo (Joel, 2011;Joel et al, 2015).…”

Writing feminity: case of Anastasia

“…For centuries, Western culture philosophers did not distinguish between genders when immersing into contemplations about a human being or, to be more precise, what they meant when talking about a human being was a man. Till the 18 th century scientists and philosophers were of the opinion that there was only one sex -a human, and genitals of females and males were equal with the only difference of being differently developed in space (Laquer in Lorber, 1993).…”

“…Gender divisions are so common in our daily life and, for most people, so "natural", that it is only the rare gender rebel that challenges them. (Lorber, 1993, Lorber, 2000. It is often considered that the quality of being motherly is one of the natural and thus almost obligatory manifestations or incarnations of a woman.…”