Gender in Modern History
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Table of Contents
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"...Understand that gender pertains to masculine and feminine. Understand that sex refers to male and female. These are different things. [....]
So sex and gender are NOT the same thing; they’re used synonymously, and that is incorrect. Sex is biology. Gender is culture. Gender is the meaning we attribute to sex..."
Key Terms
- Gender
- Sex
- Pederasty
- Patriarchy
- Public Sphere / Private Sphere
- Non-Importation Movement
- Sati
Guided Viewing Questions
- What is the difference between gender and sex?
- What is patriarchy?
- What are some examples of how gender is socially constructed?
- In what ways have women come to play larger roles in the public sphere during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries?
- What agents of change contributed to this?