å Tuesday, February 21st, 2017

Due Monday, February 27th, by midnight. Word count: 300 words. Please make sure everything is in your own words. Absolutely no quotes should be used. If you paraphrase from the text (from Federici’s work or anywhere else), you must be sure to include the proper citation (either MLA or APA).

In The Caliban and the Witch, Silvia Federici argues that as a social-economic system, capitalism is committed to sexism and racism (2004:17). In your own words, describe the degradation of women that Federici describes in chapter one of her work. How is that degradation joined to accumulations of wealth in a capitalist political economy?

In Suzanne Kessler’s essay is about how the society gives a model of intersexuality that provides infants a biological identity about themselves. The physician is the role of the medical pyramid, they are standing on the top and decide which gender and social issues that parents/infant should face. They belief the gender and children are malleable based the theory of Monkey and Ehrhardt’s theory, they give a statement about how intersexuality is a condition of the biological issues. There any many doctors, psychologists and geneticist agree that operative correction is necessary for infants who in the early stages of development. In the top of the society, the physician’s all theory are based on researches and data, but they do not care the nature of child birth and the psychology issues for the infants and their families. In the other hand, the morality and ethic is not allowed people who use some extreme surgery to change person’s identity.

The middle of pyramid is the parent, they have higher expectations about their child’s gender and there are many of them use some technologies to test whether it’s a boy or girl. They put too much confidence to physicians and how they should give a healthy baby. Most of them cannot accept intersexual baby, because the trust of medical construction and, lack of knowledge and how others looks them. “How others talk about?” It’s sounds a common question, but when you asked millions of parent. They will give you many argument and critical issues. The gender identify is determined by chromosome and genes from our parent. They have to know the baby is born in nature; there is nothing wrong with them. The society should accept and understand the issues and support them.

In the bottom of pyramid is the patient/infant; it’s not fair if they cannot decide their own gender identity. The relationship between patient and doctor is becomes negative. We need more help from them not only in how to solve the biological issues, they are also should be a doctor of a child, to thinking about their situation.