Which of the following situations provides an example of how the social categories of gender influence the biology of sex?
a. parents who refuse to let their three-year-old son paint his fingernails
b. how people react differently to two women who hold hands in public versus two men who hold hands in public
c. the decision to raise a male infant born with a "small" penis (e.g., a phallus measuring less than 2 cm in length) as a female
d. how a "one-sex" model of human bodies dominated thinking among ancient Greeks, but a "two-sex" model dominates current Western biological thought
Ans: c. the decision to raise a male infant born with a "small" penis (e.g., a phallus measuring less than 2 cm in length) as a female
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