As you might already know, I’m currently doing a Masters in Gender and Development at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), at the University of Sussex. This semester I took the Sexuality and Development module. One of the exercises...
‘One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman’ (Simone de Beauvoir 1949). The sentiment encapsulated in this classic quote is that gender is socially constructed, and not predetermined by genitalia (being born with either a penis or a vagina). That...
