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Making Sex, A And Of The One Sex Model Essay

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Unit Two Sex is a complicated topic for a variety of reasons; one of which is how he differences between men and women are described and explained. In Laqueur’s book, Making Sex, a discretion of the one sex model is given along with several contributing factors to the shift to a two sex model. In this paper I would like to touch on some of the influences given in the book and out as evidence for my own interpretation of how our current model developed. With the coming of the modern age came a rapid influx of ideas; it was a time for revolutions to be made. I’d like to start a bit before this time though to see how the shift began. In the premodern era conquering other peoples was very common. In a sense it was conquer, or be conquered. We rationalized that some people had progressed faster than others, and therefore that is why they were able to overtake other communities or nations. These people were “civilized” and the others “savage”. This difference in progress was a driving force in developing technologies and ideas to stay above the people it ruled over. To do this, a strong military and economy was needed. The developed nations needed the strongest population to defend, invade, produce, and profit. In addition to this, the ruling class felt that it was not fair to leave their colonies so underdeveloped; so in order to prevent the progression gap from widening it sought to help the poor savages. This was achieved by several efforts to better the health of societies

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