Mary Tombiri [SEP] sex or gender
Mary Tombiri
Mary Tombiri (born July 23, 1972) is a retired female track and field sprinter from Nigeria. At the 1994 Commonwealth Games she, together with Faith Idehen, Christy Opara-Thompson and Mary Onyali, won the gold medal in 4 x 100 metres relay.
of a specific 'biological' sex within a categorical gender. The second wave feminist view that gender is socially constructed and hegemonic in all societies, remains current in some literary theoretical circles, Kira Hall and Mary Bucholtz publishing new perspectives as recently as 2008.
Contemporary socialisation theory proposes the notion that when a child is first born it has a biological sex but no social gender. As the child grows, "...society provides a string of prescriptions, templates, or models of behaviors appropriate to the one sex or the