Cross-Culturally, There Are More 'Rites of Passage' for Boys Than

question 52

Multiple Choice

Cross-culturally, there are more 'rites of passage' for boys than girls for all of the following reasons, EXCEPT (not including) that:

• A) the female body's capacity to menstruate provides a natural marker of womanhood's potential onset.
• B) the journey to manhood is harder because women raise children.
• C) attaining manhood is more important than attaining womanhood.
• D) in gender-segregated cultures little boys stay with female kin and have little idea what men do.
• E) children of both genders are physically, concretely born out of female bodies, not male bodies.

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