Rethinking Feminism

Feminism was born out of a need for women to speak to systematic inequality based on their sex. Joan Wallach Scott writes, "My motive was and is one I share with other feminists and it is avowedly political: to point out and change inequities between women and men." Inherent in these inequities between women and men is the fact that women are on the losing end of a man/woman power dynamic. There is feminism and not masculinism because gender inequity is typically biased towards men. The majority of the world is either male or female biologically and this difference is acknowledged in some way by probably every culture. As such, according to Scott, "gender offers both a good way of thinking about history, about the ways in which hierarchies of difference- inclusions and exclusions- have been constituted, and of theorizing (feminist) politics" (11). What I want to explore is how one addresses these inequities without becoming defined by them.
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