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- Title: What Contributions have Biological Approaches Made to Our Understanding of Gender and Sexuality?
- Author : Journal of Social and Psychological Sciences
- Release Date : January 01, 2008
- Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 74 KB
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Biologists believe that the source of human behaviour resides inside of us and that the differences between males and females can actually be found in our body components such as cell compositions, set up and anatomical parts such as differences in brain seizes (Kimmel 2004). Their explanations on gender and sexuality are based on the visible physical physiological differences. Because they present their explanations as 'indisputable truth' based on 'objective scientific facts' (Hird 2004), they have also become widely acceptable and easy to follow in societies across the globe. This has been so because they are in line with every ones observations on the physical differences of the body between men and women (Kimmel 2004). Biological explanations of gender and sexual differences have been linked to Charles Darwin's work on evolution. His explanations were contrary to commonly accepted cultural and theological explanations of divinely created sexual differences where the different sexes serve particular purposes. On the contrary, Darwin suggested that just as wild animals had physiological differences between the sexes and so did humans. He suggested that woman differed to men in terms of their mental dispositions with men seen as aggressive, competitive, and ambitious and women on the contrary as tender, caring and less selfish. Others have explained this further by asserting that men had 'larger brains' than women (Kimmel 2004).This definition of differences between men and women in this way had serious implications. It led to the exclusion of women from education and public life as arguments that women who aspired to move into public sphere were basically aspiring to do things that their bodies were not designed to do because issues to do with voting, working were then seen as a man's domain (Hird 2004). Others questioned whether women, 'with a small brain,' could undergo training or education and if their bodies could not cope with the amount of pressure that the education gives, coupled with the tremendous pressure that reproduction puts upon their bodies (Beasley 2005; Kimmel 2004). Such explanations were based on observations that college educated women had fewer children, were marrying less than their non college educated counterparts. Such arguments led to assertions that women are weaker than men thus the differences between men and women were natural, due to their sex and they will always be subject to man (Kimmel 2004).
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