Jeremy Stangroom

the more they are complicit in a patriarchal construction. This goes for men *and* women. So if you read about the history of 2nd wave

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.

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

coercive, contingent and a barrier to genuine female emancipation. If you identify with those norms, etc, then you are in some sense

complicit with a patriarchal construction. That's the argument, basically - with apologies for oversimplification & lacunae.

@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