The expectation that women in the United States should remove body hair because it is "unfeminine" points to the fact that

a. females with facial and body hair are an anomaly.
b. expectations about appropriate amount and distribution of body hair for males and females are socially created.
c. effective depilatory creams are hard to find.
d. natural differences between males and females that are rooted in biology.


b

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Indicate whether the statement is true or false.

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