Word: masculinist
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Critics latched onto this ambiguity and lambasted “The Second Sex” for ascribing to a masculinist paradigm. By trivializing women’s reproductive labor, the argument went, Beauvoir reinscribed the gendered binaries which she purported to deny, conflating culture with man and nature with woman. In this view, Beauvoir figured liberation as a masculine concept—as the ability to transcend the limitations of the traditionally feminine. The model of liberation that she offered woman, therein, seemed no different from the existing paradigm proffered...
...film version of this collection of Anais Nin’s diaries was the first movie to receive a NC-17 rating. But that was the sex without the pathos and the writing. In 1931, Nin meets exuberant masculinist writer Henry Miller (“Tropic of Cancer”) and his bisexual spitfire of a wife June, and Nin immediately falls for her beauty and his writing. June soon leaves, allowing the married Nin to begin an affair with Henry, which leads to her complete sexual awakening. It is an emotional and captivating true narrative matched perfectly by Nin?...
...gender terms, AIDS has advanced lesbians to positions of leadership, in part because so many of the erstwhile male leaders are dead or dying. It led many gay women to reconsider their theoretical feminist rejection of homosexual men as simply a more extreme version of the "masculinist" enemy. But some lesbians increasingly complain that despite their new power, their own agenda of women's issues -- including pay equality, affirmative action and legal recognition of gay marriages -- keeps getting pushed aside in deference to the epidemic...
...synthesis which transcends both the rationalist and romanticist poles must necessarily challenge the masculinist social order itself.... This is the most radical vision but there are no human alternatives. The Market, with its financial abstractions, deformed science, and obsession with dead things--must be pushed back to the margins. And the 'womanly' values of community and caring must rise to the center as the only human principles...
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