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Das differenzierte Geschlechterverständnis der Antike

2010, GENDER – Zeitschrift für Geschlecht, Kultur und Gesellschaft

Abstract

Naturphilosophische Geschlechterbetrachtungen von Autoren der Antike waren vielgestaltig. Nach einer Beschreibung der gesellschaftlichen was first criticized by Katherine Park and Robert A. Nye in 1991. However, these kinds of comments do not attract a lot of interest. Based on the social relevance of gender/sex in ancient societies, in this article, I will present different angels of an antique natural philosophical view of gender/sex. I conclude that the variety of gender/sex theory proves that natural philosophical, biological and medical theories can be considered a construction of society.