'Rites of Passage' Are Relevant to Investigations of Gender's Cultural

question 26

Multiple Choice

'Rites of Passage' are relevant to investigations of gender's cultural construction because:

• A) in many cultures, gender is created by members of a society through rites of passage that they organize and enact.
• B) their structure is analogous to the three-fold structure of the nuclear family.
• C) women generally oversee men's rites of passage, and vice-versa.
• D) of the very small role they have played throughout history in making men men and women women.
• E) they show that in some cultures men are feminine and women are masculine, disproving the hypothesis that gender is biologically determined.