Examine the view that childhood is socailly constructed

The view that childhood is not entirely a social construction, is based on the biologically constructed boundary of sex, male / female. This is evident in the biological differences between male and females, chromosomes, hormones and genitals. Theorist argue that sex is something that is separate from gender, as gender is socially constructed, and therefore, there are basic natural constancy’s regarding ones sex which would contribute towards determining childhood. Carol Gilligan and Nancy Chodorow identified that the possession of certain genitals does support a common enough meaning across a range of cultures to make possible a fundamentally homogenous set of generalizations regarding a child’s development.

There have been recent feminist theorists, Nicholson, argues that if the body itself is always seen

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