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This paper uses Deirdre N. McCloskey’s book “Crossing: A Memoir” to explore the idea that gender can be learned. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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always meant to be. This paper uses the book of her journey, Crossing: A Memoir, to consider the claim that gender is learned. Discussion The first thing that must be
clear up is the statement that "gender is learned." If we consider gender to mean nothing more or less than the quality determined by the chromosome combination an individual bears,
then gender cannot be learned; a person is born with a certain number of X or Y chromosomes in particular combinations, and that makes them male or female. It
seems more likely that what McCloskey is talking about is the way in which we learn to relate to each other because of our primary sexual characteristics. That is, society
expects certain things of men just because they are men; these responses are learned. McCloskey changed genders, but she still identifies as a woman-a gendered being. She might argue that
she was a woman all her life and simply had the wrong type of body; in fact, for her, gender was a burden. However, it was not learned, it simply
was. What is learned is how to be a woman (or man); how to respond to a person who is identified as a woman or man; the roles allotted to
the sexes and similar issues. McCloskey enjoys being a woman, so much so that she is something of a feminist. However, she doesnt want to elevate women and disparage men,
because that is unfair. She says "Women are not always more loving, or less interested in career. And certainly they are in detail what they are" not on account of
some external Platonic ideal or the imperatives of genetics" (McCloskey xiv). She continues that she is reporting on how the social differences in "social practice" seem to her, admitting always
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