“Females and males” or “women and men”? Judith Lorber, in “Believing is Seeing: Biology as Ideology”, mentions that in the past, people believed that the basic bodily material of males and females are the same as male and female genitalia are developed from the same fetal tissues and therefore, infants can be born in ambiguous genitalia. She reveals that there are two main arguments in categorizing people in the past are not enough.
The first argument is males and females are basically the same, but they become differ because of social construction. Another argument holds the opposite view with the former one that males and females are not the same because of their biological difference and people are posited into a hierarchal system. Lorber
The first argument is males and females are basically the same, but they become differ because of social construction. Another argument holds the opposite view with the former one that males and females are not the same because of their biological difference and people are posited into a hierarchal system. Lorber