Discuss this: The SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION of sex, using David Reimer and Dr. Money in your discussion. (Watch Clip)

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Sex and gender are different. Sex seems to be biological and gender cultural. Yet in this society we regularly change the sex of babies who do not fit neatly into the categories of male or female.

Discuss this: The SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION of sex, using David Reimer and Dr. Money in your discussion. Please realize that this is the American Medical Associations recommendation for any boy child born with a micro phallus (a small penis). This is not 1 crazy doctor. This IS the social construction of gender. In your discussion, talk about how Dr. Money socialized Brenda to be a girl.

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The case of David Reimer intensified the debate about the social construction of sex regarding whether the difference in behavior between girls and boys are constructed by nature or nurture. Many people get their gender identities from the biological context as much as they do from the gender education they learn from society. The documentary “Dr. Money and The Boy with No Penis” presents a case where sex construction is approached from the social perspective………………………

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