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the charm of novelty to recommend

she really eats in this book ' it is easy to imagine yourself sovereign when youre alone, to think yourself strong when you carefully avoid taking up any burden ' her respinse to monthelant

i dont agree with the take that men hate women because they hated being born and thus arent able to be gods

nietsche - woman is the most dangerous sport of all

im sure all of the self help books youve read have made you the man you are today, but it does not impress me. Your ancestors have accomplished far better things, built pyramids, discovered science. Women who accomplish today are far more interesting, they suceed even though the entire world has been against them since their existence

Embracing her, it is all the riches of life that the lover would possess. She is the whole fauna, the whole flora of the earth; gazelle and doe, lilies and roses, downy peach, perfumed berry, she is precious stones, nacre, agate, pearl, silk, the blue of the sky, the cool waters of spring, air, flame, land and sea.

womans issues are a mans problem, as much as antisemitism isnt a jew problem, its a christian problem.

It wasnt womens inferiority that caused her historical insignificance , its their historical insignifiance that doomed them to inferiority

In 195 BCE, due to pressure from women and shifting priorities, the Lex Oppia was repealed. This marked a rare victory for women in a patriarchal society.

BUT they took away their right to legal contracts after that

In 195 BCE, due to pressure from women and shifting priorities, the Lex Oppia was repealed. This marked a rare victory for women in a patriarchal society.

after men took over patriarchy, aristotle defined women as the other , light and dark. male being light women being dark. It set up dualism, women were feared and now not worshipped but hated : adam and eve, pandora,

men used to fear women, not knowing how pregnencaies worked, women were seen as magical beings, magical as the earth, they feared this power and bowed down to it. women enjoyed and benefited but only BECAUSE the male assigned the female as 'the other'

early woman was enslaved by child making, man seeked out danger and adventure and invention, he was praised and cretated festivals. he created the male and female values

The Soviet Union oscillated between prioritizing industrial production and addressing demographic concerns, often creating contradictory pressures on families and women. These shifts highlight the difficulty of reconciling ideological goals with practical realities.

Stalin era was the worst and most conservative

private property went from matrilineal inheritance systems ( in stone age ) to patrilineal inheritance (agricultural rev)

Embedded in conservative feminist
critique of lesbian sadomasochism was an underlying homophobia.
Whenever any woman acts as though lesbians must always follow
rigid moral standards to be deemed acceptable or to make straight
people feel comfortable, they are perpetuating homophobia

. Experience coupled with awareness and choice are the factors that usually lead women into leftist politics

To a grave extent feminist movement failed to attract a
large body of females and males because our theory did not effectively address the issue of not just what males might do to be antisexist but also what an alternative masculinity might look like.

Had all feminist thinkers expressed outrage at patriarchal
violence perpetrated by women, placing it on an equal footing with
male violence against women, it would have been and will be harder
for the public to dismiss attention given patriarchal violence by seeing it as an anti-male agenda.

This chapter is about sisterhood, how women should battle inner sexism and bond. Men get to do it freely and get praised for it. A lot of women have gained the privilege of feminism without working for it therefor feel the disconnect to sisterhood. We need to encourage each other

Male bonding was an accepted and affirmed aspect of patriarchal culture. It was simply assumed that men in groups would stick
together, support one another, be team players, place the good of
the group over individual gain and recognition. Female bonding was
not possible within patriarchy; it was an act of treason.

This chapter talks about RAISING CONCIOSUNESS groups that were held at homes, soon womens studies gained legitimacy in universities but women sturggled and lifestyle feminists emerged. they didnt confront their sexism anymore and it was a space for pivileged women.


The enemy within must be transformed before we can
confront theenemy outside. The threat, the enemy, is sexist thought
and behavior

. For example, let's take the issue of abortion. If feminism is a
movement to end sexist oppression, and depriving females of reproductive rights is a form of sexist oppression, then one cannot be
anti-choice and be feminist.

Reformist feminism became their route to class mobility. They
could break free of male domination in the workforce and be more
self-determining in their lifestyles. While sexism did not end, they
could maximize their freedom within the existing system. Black women suffered

"Feminism is a movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation,
and oppression"

The distinctions between “children” and
“adults, ” and the social institutions which enforce those
distinctions, would disappear as androgynous community develops.

community built on androgynous identity will mean the end of
transsexuality as we know it. Either the transsexual will
be able to expand his/her sexuality into a fluid androgyny, or, as roles disappear, the phenomenon o f transsexuality will disappear and that energy will be transformed into new modes of sexual identity and behavior

Transsexuality can be defined as one particular
formation of our general multisexuality which is unable to achieve its natural development because of extremely adverse social conditions.

That is not to say that “men” and “women” should
not fuck. Any sexual coming together which is genuinely pansexual and role-free, even if between men and
women as we generally think of them (i. e., the biological
images we have of them), is authentic and androgynous.

1. Genetic or nuclear sexuality
2. Hormonal sexuality
3. Gonadal sexuality
4. Internal sexuality
5. External genital sexuality
6. Psychosexual development