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Gender is the social meaning of sex

Gender, as introduced by feminist historians, is the social meaning of sex: the same sex can carry very different social meanings, identities, and expectations across time and culture, which shows that what women 'naturally' are cannot be natural if it varies so tremendously.

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Speaker

Sally Haslanger

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the slogan was, "Well, gender is the social meaning of sex," allowing that the same sex across time and place could have very different social meanings.

Source

182 | Sally Haslanger on Social Construction and Critical TheorySean Carroll's Mindscape
Created: 6/13/2026, 12:30:09 AM

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