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Amia Srinivasan on What is a Woman?

Philosophy Bites

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Gender Is the Socially Constructed Overlay on That

Gender is the socially constructed overlay on that. So there is a masculine view of the world thrust upon me as a man from the time that i was a boy. And women tend to be brought up with certain preconceptions about the limits of what they should or shouldn't do. Now, how could somebody seriously get away from gendrit such a dominant aspect of human life across the world? It would be very strange to just abolish gender altogether. A world without gender would be profoundly different from ours. But so would a world without racism, and soWould a world without economic oppression. Still. feminism that seeks to abolish gender sees the abolition of gender as a regulative ideal,. something we

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