[lbo-talk] RE: Theory Hotline

[joanna bujes]

(Test: do you need to see a biological marker of gender
to identify a person as a man or a woman in everyday
social settings?)  So gender--as a part of shared
social understanding--is socially produced and
sustained.

My favorite illustration of this: A young English boy is shown a picture of a naked man and a naked woman and asked to identify the "man" and the "woman." He replies: "How can I possibly tell? They haven't got their clothes on."

Joanna