1. Freud, 1908:3232
2. Durkheim's claim (1897)
3. Rubin suggests, as a preliminary formulation, that a society'ssex/gender system is "a set of arrangements by which the biological raw material of humansex and procreation is shaped by human, social intervention and satisfied in a conventionalmanner . The realm of human sex, gender, and procreation has been subjected to, andchanged by, relentless social activity for millennia. Sex as we know it-gender identity, sex-ual desire and fantasy, concepts of childhood-is itself a social product" (1975:165-6)165
4. Chodorow, 1971
5. Mitchell, 1974