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S/He Brain - Science, Sexual Politics, and the Myths of Feminism (Hardcover)
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S/He Brain - Science, Sexual Politics, and the Myths of Feminism (Hardcover)
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During the 1960s, Margaret Mead's argument that gender identity is
a product of learning in particular cultural contexts was
incorporated into the sex/gender system in feminist theory. In this
system, sex refers to physiological differences in the body and
gender refers to learned sex-specific bodies to be viewed as
separate and distinct from gender-neutral minds. In S/He Brain,
Nadeau demonstrates that the sex/gender systemis not some arcane
bit of academic jargon that has no impact on our daily lives. It is
the greatest source of division and conflict in the politics of our
sexual lives for a now obvious reason: the brains of men and women
are not the same, and the differences have behavioral consequences.
Further, he argues that an improved understanding of the
relatinship between sex and gender could enlarge the bases for
meaningful dialogue between men and women and lead to new standards
for sexual equality that is more realistic and humane than the
current standard. The individual most responsible for legitimating
the modern distinction between sex and gender was the
anthropologist Margaret Mead. According to the Mead doctrine,
gender identity is almost entirely a product of learning in
different cultural contexts, and sex, or biological reality, is not
a determinant of this identity. The assumption that gender identity
is learned in sexless, or gender-neutral, minds separate and
distinct from sex-specific bodies legitimated the sex/gender system
that has been foundational to feminist theory since the mid 1970s.
In this system, sex refers to physiological differences in the
domain of the body and gender to learned behavior in the domain of
mind. Since this two-domain distinction obviated the connection
between biological reality and gender identity, it allowed gender
identity to be viewed as scripted or socially constructed by
cultural narratives (stories, myths, legends, and the like)
invented by men to control and oppress women. In ^IS/He Brain^R,
Nadeau demonstrates that the sex/gender system is not in accord
with biological reality for now obvious reasons-the brains of men
and women are not the same, and the differences have behavioral
consequences. Yet the intent of the book is to serve the cause of
full sexual equality and not to escalate the gender war. Nadeau
attempts to accomplish this by demonstrating that an improved
understanding of the relationship between sex and gender can not
only enlarge the bases for meaningful communication between men and
women. It could also serve as the basis for a new and improved
standard of sexual equality that eliminates the grossly unfair
treatment of women sanctioned by the current standard.
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