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Simone De Beauvoir Once Famously Asserted That "One Is Not

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Simone de Beauvoir once famously asserted that "one is not born a woman,but becomes one," to suggest that women are created by cultural forces.How might sociobiologists respond to this?


A) De Beauvoir does not account for the role of industrialization in creating the category of woman.
B) De Beauvoir misses that what constitutes a woman is biological as well as cultural.
C) De Beauvoir fails to show how the category of woman is purely an effect of economics.
D) De Beauvoir is correct because our biology determines our culture.

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