Monday, June 6, 2022

Gender as Levi-Straussian structural analogy to sex

Gender is not identical with sex. But it is a cultural system , a structure , in the structural anthropological or linguistic sense, semiotic structure ( see deSaussure) THAT IS BUILT ON ANALOGY TO THE BIOLOGICAL SEX STRUCTURE.

In other words , the basic binary opposition of the gender structure is male/female on analogy to sex. Then the gender structure is elaborated more than the biological structure . Thereby, sex and gender are not identical . Homeomorphic maybe in the Group Theory Algebra sense .

See _Totemism_

https://www.britannica.com/topic/totemism-religion/Levi-Strauss

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_L%C3%A9vi-Strauss

https://culturalstudiesnow.blogspot.com/2021/01/summary-totemism-by-claude-levi-strauss.html

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