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Resisting sex/gender conflation: A reply
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UNSPECIFIED (1996) Resisting sex/gender conflation: A reply. SOCIOLOGICAL REVIEW, 44 (4). pp. 728-745. ISSN 0038-0261.
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Abstract
The irony of the rejection of the sex/gender distinction is that it renders sociology per se an impossible enterprise. For it is my submission that, contra Hood-Williams (1996) and others, the biological and the social constitute distinct, irreducible levels of reality: to conflate (in a 'downwards' or 'upwards' direction) the two levels is immediately to render analysis of their relative interplay at best intractable. It is indeed arguable that Hood-Williams is not so much concerned with (rightly) rejecting the so-called 'additive' approach to the biological and the social where the biological base is seen a priori as immutable, but more fundamentally with rejecting the necessary dualism of nature and culture (ie the biological and the social). In contradistinction, a realist defence of the sex/gender distinction will be made, involving critical reference to various major writers in the field and offering a brief but tentative discussion of the provenance of gender.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HM Sociology | ||||
Journal or Publication Title: | SOCIOLOGICAL REVIEW | ||||
Publisher: | BLACKWELL PUBL LTD | ||||
ISSN: | 0038-0261 | ||||
Official Date: | November 1996 | ||||
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Volume: | 44 | ||||
Number: | 4 | ||||
Number of Pages: | 18 | ||||
Page Range: | pp. 728-745 | ||||
Publication Status: | Published |
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