Write a response paper on the article: The Five Sexes – Why male and female are not enough
Ann Fausto-Sterling takes up a subject of much current debate—the relationship between sex and gender. By deconstructing the “making” of dichotomous sexual identities of masculine and feminine, she disputes the division of the world into only two genders based simply on genital differences. This raises provocative questions about gender and about sex, and whether the relationship between them is a given. Our conceptions of gender begin to look very different if the human sexes are multiple.
This paper should be written just like the last reading respose paper you wrote for me, which was perfect, in a liberal perspective (agreeing with Fausto-Sterling that just male and female are not enough)
Answer these questions in the paper:
1. What CONNECTIONS can you draw between this reading and your own life or your other learning?
-NOTE FOR YOU: For me personally, I am a female so you can relate that to this part of the reading.
2. What ideas, positions, or assumptions do you want to CHALLENGE or argue with in this reading?
-NOTE FOR YOU: You yourself as the writer of the reading response can choose what to challange in this reading, if any at all.
3. What key CONCEPTS or ideas from this reading do you think are important and worth holding on to?
-NOTE FOR YOU: You yourself as the writer can choose what key concepts or ideas from this reading you think are important and worth holding on to in this reading (must choose concepts)
4. What CHANGES in attitudes, thinking, or action are suggested by this reading, either from the author or
from you?
