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The Molecular Pursuit of Masculinity

Author(s) -

Ramsi Haddad

Publication year - 1991

Publication title -

nexus the canadian student journal of anthropology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

ISSN - 0707-3771

DOI - 10.15173/nexus.v9i1.124

Subject(s) - masculinity , y chromosome , phenomenon , testosterone (patch) , gene , genetics , biology , sex hormone binding globulin , psychology , social psychology , epistemology , endocrinology , psychoanalysis , philosophy , androgen , hormone

Ever since Aristotle suggested that females are incomplete males, the study of sex determination has been a persistent reiteration of this notion. Thus, the scientific study of sex determination has centred male specific single factors to explain this phenomenon. These single factors include testes, testosterone, the Y chromosome, H-Y antigen and, finally, a recently cloned gene called ZFY. It is evident that such an androcentric bias is incapable of explaining sex determination.

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