ABSTRACT
In 1968 Robert Stoller proposed that it was useful to distinguish between sex (biological status) and gender (social and cultural status) and it is interesting to note that the term ‘ethnicity’, according to van den Berghe, was also coined during that period. We say interesting in the sense that this is to emphasise the extent to which such notions as gender and ethnicity are constructed and how they are thus necessarily conceived in such contexts as time and place.
