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Keeping Men Men And Women Down: Sex Segregation, Anti-Essentialism, And Masculinity, David S. Cohen
Keeping Men Men And Women Down: Sex Segregation, Anti-Essentialism, And Masculinity, David S. Cohen
David S Cohen
Current-day sex segregation is one of the central ways that law and society define and construct who is a man and what it means to be a man. When law or society tells people that a place or activity is reserved for men alone, or in the converse, that men are excluded from a particular place or activity, two important messages are sent: one, that there are distinct categories of people based on reproductive anatomy and that these anatomical distinctions are a legitimate way of organizing and sorting people; and two, that people with the reproductive anatomy labeled “male” are …