... prevalence of masculinity in powerful positions has created hierarchal dichotomies (V. Spike Peterson and Anne Sisson Runyan 1995:5), thus creating further prejudices throughout society, even to the extent that language (i.e. the underlying cultural definitions given to various words) is tainted with gendered overtones. Peterson and Runyan suggest furthermore that gender has little to do with one's physicality, ... masculinity and femininity?, a notion that is supported by Francone D'Amico and Peter Beckman (1994:3):[gender is] characteristics linked to a particular sex by one's culture...

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