Hartsock now goes a bit bonkers with the psychoanalysis, but basically argues that girls end up with more empathy, and are more connected to others, less dependent on an idealized conception than boys (concrete femininity versus idealized masculinity), etc.
And it's that bit that's problematic, because the feminist standpoint - in effect a different way of knowing - is rooted in the different way the Oedipus complex resolves for boys and girls (which in turn is dependent on a certain view of motherhood and its centrality).
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I realize you know all this. I do. And I hope you're right that actually there wouldn't be a fuss if the implications of this view for how "woman" is conceptualized were made explicit, but... Well, I'm dubious. That said, you've got more experience than me, so maybe I'm wrong.
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Sorry if that were incoherent, I'm responding too quickly because I've got to go. Hope you have a good rest of your evening.
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