PHIL 2060 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Essentialism, Separatist Feminism, Cultural Feminism
10 Apr 2018
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Essentialism: doctrine or view that there is an intrinsic and immutable nature to something. A biological essentialist might say there is intrinsic and immutable for men and women or race. Races are not natural; skin is but there are no natural differences between races. Social constructivism= the view that behaviors groups and categories are social and not simply natural creations. It doesn"t mean that no behavior is natural, the claim is that"s sexuality isn"t entirely natural. Gender and sexuality and race, the problems identified by feminist post-modernists: Difference is turned into deviance, which creates or maintains social inequalities. Compulsory heterosexuality (the assumption that everyone is heterosexual and penalties for not being heterosexual. Feminist and transgender feminism overlap because they both challenge gender roles. +528: human sexuality is not comprehensible in partly biological terms the belly"s hunger gives no clue as to the complexities of cuisine. Rubin thinks that sexual identities and preferences are not given in nature.
