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BELIEVING IS SEEING: Biology as Ideology

LORBER, JUDITH·1993·Gender & Society
DOI 10.1177/089124393007004006
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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.

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Authors
LORBER, J.
Venue
Gender & Society
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Published
1993-12
Volume
7
Issue
4
Pages
568-581
ISSN
  • 0891-2432 (ISSN-L)
  • 1552-3977
DOI
10.1177/089124393007004006
OpenAlex
W2114365820
Cited by
320
References
52
FWCI
6.31
Type
journal article
Language
en
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