“The Woods Are for Men”:
Sexual Dimorphism and the Origin of “Gender Roles”
JOHN SHEEHAN
Tompkins Cortland Community College
This paper chronicles the development of “traditional” gender roles
among tribal peoples, and shows how various socially constructed “mas‐
culinities” (and “femininities”) can be accommodated under such a
rubric. Arguing from the seeming evolutionary thrust of hominid devel‐
opment toward greater cerebration, it will analyze the increasing sexual
dimorphism of hominids, both…
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