My Yr 12s are studying three texts, all of which are obvious candidates for an essay on gender.
Firstly, what is gender? The OED defines it as:
"In mod. (esp. feminist) use, a euphemism for the sex of a human being, often intended to emphasize the social and cultural, as opposed to the biological, distinctions between the sexes."
In other words, sex is about whether you are biologically male or female, whereas gender is about all the social implications that arise from that distinction - and from the blurring of it where this occurs.
Two great books connected with this subject are Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson and The Female Eunuch by Germaine Greer.
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