Sublime

Messages from society regarding gender equality and public health seem to be in conflict with those from pornography and other media with pornographic messages.

The feminist uncanny valley is the result of a larger neoliberal framework that over the past five decades has come to unite politics, economics, and culture in a web of individualism, privatization, and decreasing focus on both community and compassion.

Pilcher and Whelehan explain why in their 2004 account of the emerging field of gender studies: Liberal feminism draws on the diversity of liberal thought dominant in Western society since the Enlightenment, which affirms that women’s subordinate social position can be addressed by existing political processes under democracy. For liberals the key

Mary Poovey, a materialist feminist—a feminist who focuses primarily on how patriarchal and capitalist assumptions force women into socially constructed gender roles—described this clearly. Poovey was attracted to deconstructive techniques for their ability to undermine what she saw as socially constructed gender stereotypes (the belief that such

and focuses only on the needs of a narrow subset of already privileged women; a version of feminism that is toothless and apolitical and fails to challenge the injustice of existing power structures, aiming only to insert women at the top of them. This type of feminism, commonly referred to as neoliberal feminism, tends to overlook the aspects of

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