What Does a Biocultural Approach to Human Carriage and Gesture

question 20

Multiple Choice

What does a biocultural approach to human carriage and gesture tell us in regard to how human males and females move their bodies?

• A) Male and female gesture and carriage differences are the same across cultures, confirming current understandings of gender's natural basis.
• B) Cross-cultural diversity in male and female carriage and gesture norms challenges the assumption that gendered ways of moving the body are 'universal.'
• C) How someone moves is wholly a reflection of that person's individual personality.
• D) Gesture is an integral part of language, and therefore provides the best insight into the way males and females differentially view or categorize their worlds.
• E) Females around the world sit with legs together, and men around the world sit with legs apart; so this is a natural way of sitting tied to 'sex,' not 'gender.'

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