This chapter discusses the limitations of modernisation seem to lie in the gender system. The tracing of this process takes the authors far beyond the level of frustrated talk and into mundane practice, into the management of the meanings and matters of refrigerators and menus and, finally, on through a series of metaphors and metonymies, to the female body. The chapter discusses the important insights from this genealogy of sexed bodies in which Laqueur traces the birth of binary sex from the prior one-sex world, thereby bringing back to the present a largely forgotten past in our gendered history. Although this may seem utterly constructed, the author demonstrates that the Turkana version of the biology of sex is closely based in empirical observation of animal bodies.