feminism

As feministas liberais defendem a individualidade e o empreendedorismo e preconizam o “empoderamento” como saída para a desigualdade de gênero; as feministas radicais apostam na coletividade, porém enxergam no patriarcado a raiz de todas as opressões; e as feministas marxistas reivindicam a centralidade do trabalho e da classe na identificação da

the truth is that anyone can clearly see that humanity is split into two categories of individuals with manifestly different clothes, faces, bodies, smiles, movements, interests, and occupations; these differences are perhaps superficial; perhaps they are destined to disappear. What is certain is that for the moment they exist in a strikingly

The business of marketing and selling to women literally depends on creating and then addressing female insecurity, and part of the revelatory potential of women’s lib involved rejecting the marketplace’s sweet-talking promises about life-changing face creams and shampoos—not to mention the entire premise of women as decorative objects.

“The passage from the state of Nature to the state of Culture is defined by man’s ability to think biological relations as systems of oppositions; duality, alternation, opposition, and symmetry, whether occurring in defined or less clear form, are not so much phenomena to explain as fundamental and immediate givens of social reality.”