At the beginning of Wednesday's class we discussed our papers, and possible ways to go about improving them for the re-write. We went on to discuss Mathieu and Turkle's articles, and briefly touched upon ideas from hooks. Theories of different authors we have read could fall into Matieu's three categories. This would fit in to a sociological approach. She looks at African, Indian and Native American cultures.
Sex is a symbol of gender.
The issue is more complicated than one being labelled biological and the other social. Sex doesn't have to symbolize gender. But Mathieu moves beyond Epstein. Mathieu does use one example from ancient Greece- homosexual relations between men and boys. Homosexuality is tolerated among both males and females, but for females only after procreation.