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Distinguish between Sex and Gender issues with suitable examples.

  • UPSC 2002
  • Systems of Kinship

Ann Oakley (Sex, Gender and Society, 1972) drew the classic distinction: sex refers to biological differences between males and females, and gender to the socially constructed roles, expectations and values attached to them. Simone de Beauvoir (The Second Sex, 1949) had already put it this way: "One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman."…

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