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Women’s bodies emerge on the shoreline between biology and culture.
Androcentrism, as it’s known, isn’t just a symptom of bias in science and medicine, but the consequence of a society where the ‘default-male’ is encoded in language, leisure and law. The heights of desks, the shapes of cars, the size of phones, the width of piano keys – all are built in ‘one-size-fits-men’ terms, as Caroline Criado Perez has argued. The bodies of women and other gender minorities are simply perceived as a divergence from the norm – ‘mutilated males’, in Aristotle’s words.