We may think we know exactly what a man is, and what a woman is, but what exactly is that judgement based on - biology or behaviour?
Can we ‘perform’ gender or is it determined by our physical characteristics? If a baby is born with both male and female genitalia, should they be either male or female or remain somewhere in between? What is the difference between sex and gender? And to what extent does our current understanding of sex and gender differ from the pre-modern era?
To discuss, Woman's Hour is joined by Thomas Laqueur, Professor of History at the University of California at Berkeley and author of "Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud" and by Lynne Segal, Professor of Psychology and Gender Studies at Birkbeck, University of London. |
