The popular science magazine, Scientific American , is facing criticism for it’s new documentary series, “A Question of Sex,” in which the publication claims that the concept of binary sex didn’t exist in Western culture until scientists adopted the “two-sex” model to “reinforce gender and racial divisions,” in the late 18th century.
“While gendered social structures are ancient, a binary framework of biological sex didn’t actually exist in Western culture until the late 18th century,” a clip from the documentary posted to Scientific American’s Twitter said. “Before, science recognized only one sex; the male, and considered the female body an inferior version of it.” “The shift that historians called the ‘two-sex model’ served mainly to reinforce gender and racial divisions by tying social status to the body,” the video continued.
Despite the documentary’s claims that two sexes were not recognized in Western science before the late 1700s, there is evidence to […]
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