1. This might be said to be after all only normal! However, an analysis of scientific writing in the sixties shows that the elements of the “sex” variable have generally been excluded from consciousness. Either only men in fact are spoken of (while pretending to speak in general/of the generality) or the category of women alone is singled out and made into an annex to the central account and attributed “specific” problems. See Nicole-Claude Mathieu, “Notes towards a Sociological Definition of Sex Categories”, inIgnored by Some, Denied by Others (London: Women’s Research and Resources Centre, 1977); previously published inThe Human Context 6, no. 2 (1974), and inInternational Journal of Sociology 5, no. 4 (Winter 1975-76); original publication in French inEpistémologie sociologique, no. 11 (1971).
2. Cf. Nicole-Claude Mathieu, “Man-culture and woman-nature?”,Women’s Studies International Quarterly 1, no. 1 (1978); original publication in French inL’Homme 13, no. 3 (1973).
3. Francis Martens, “A propos de l’oncle maternel, ou modeste proposition pour repenser le mariage des cousins croisés,”L’Homme 15, no. 3–4 (1975).
4. Ibid., p. 162.
5. Ibid., p. 170.