A foundational claim of properly radical feminism is that gender norms - including norms of presentation, behaviour, language, etc, - are in
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you'll find there was a lot of painful wrestling with the issue of whether identifying as heterosexual, particuarly in the form that
heterosexuality takes in extant patriarchal socities, is a betrayal of feminist ideals.
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In sum, then, gender norms in patriarchal society are both constitutive of what it means to be a "woman" in those societies, and they are
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coercive, contingent and a barrier to genuine female emancipation. If you identify with those norms, etc, then you are in some sense
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complicit with a patriarchal construction. That's the argument, basically - with apologies for oversimplification & lacunae.
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@PhilosophyExp Thanks for that very helpful. A major problem is that the biology of sex is not really that well understood yet... -
@PhilosophyExp Lots known but lots still to be known- so we don't really know yet what part it plays -
@ortrudethevegan Well quite. And the question of biological "essentialism" is a thorny issue for 2nd wavers, etc -
@PhilosophyExp Wonder if people sometimes look at this from point of view of one discipline not knowing much about others- -
@ortrudethevegan Oh, definitely. Plus, it just is a very tricky & complex area. Feminism has wrestled with these issues for nearly 50 years.
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