Emeritus Professor of Sociology | Northeastern University
If we “believe” that it is biology that produces two—and only two—genders, we will not “see” beyond male and female. If, however, we believe that gender is flexible and fluid serving the cultural demands of societies at a particular time and in a particular place, we can envision gender differently.
Debra Kaufman, in Sociology Confronts the Holocaust, edited by Judith Gerson and Diane Wolf, Duke University Press: Durham, NC., 2007. pp. 39-54.
Debra Kaufman, Nashim: A Journal of Jewish Women's Studies & Gender Issues, no. 10, Fall 2005, 84-98.
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Debra Kaufman (2014), Contemporary Jewry, Volume 34:2, pp. 61-73.