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From: morris@carcoar.Stanford.EDU (Kate Morris)
Newsgroups: soc.feminism
Subject: Re: men&women: same or different?
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Date: 25 Aug 90 03:56:39 GMT
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I recently read an article that helped me understand the differences in
feminism.  It's by Ann Snitnow, and appeared in Dissent magazine, Spring
89.  The article is called "Pages from a Gender Diary", subtitled "Basic
Divisions in Feminism".  I'm not going to type it in, 'cos it'd take too
long and I have a dissertation to finish.  Briefly, it summarises the two
basic tendencies in feminism:  moving towards androgeny, and celebrating
the ways in which women are different to men.  This has been discussed for
a long time: "minimizers" vs "maximisers"; "radical" vs "cultural"
feminism, "essentialists" vs "social constructionists", American vs French
feminists, and so on.  Most of us agree with one side some of the time, and
the other side at other times.

Anyway, try and find it.  It's worth reading.

	-Kate Morris
	 morris@cs.stanford.edu