Bianca, thanks for contributing - I was very intrigued by your comment!
As I am, actually, by the biological factor argument regarding gender differentiation. As you said:
É óbvio que o corpo influencia em nossas vidas. É ululante que uma mulher sofre, por exemplo, alterações hormonais que o homem não e vice-versa. A Natureza atribui papéis biológicos e negá-los é voltar à época estúpida em que se dividia e se opunha mente e corpo, como se a existência das coisas pudesse ser dividida! Sou mulher de corpo, independente da minha alma e vontade, e isso influencia na minha alma e vontade e vice-versa. Não há um indivíduo igual ao outro tanto física quanto emocional, psicologicamente e etc.
Well, I must say I am a little reluctant to see hormonal alterations as a marker of difference between woman or man. I mean, what if a woman decides to take something, be it synthetic or natural, to balance her hormones? What if she decides never to bear a child?
I think we are so distant from the days when immediate survival tethered us to the land, and we had to cook and sew and look after the children.
You say you are a full-fledged woman, body & mind alike, and there's no denying that! But even your argument winds up with the notion of "individual" differences, and not those of "woman" vs. "man".
I came across this passage recently while selecting the bibliography for my research:
Lesbian is the only concept I know which is beyond the categories of sex (woman and man), because the designated subject (lesbian) is not a woman... what makes a woman is a specific social relation to a man, a relation that we have previously called servitude, a relation which implies personal and physical obligation as well as economic obligation... a relation which lesbians escape by refusing to become or stay heterosexual.
(Monique Wittig, 1981, in "One is not born a woman")
What of that?
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intersting. something that has always bothered me is that many progressive women still belive that only women can be feminists! If feminism criticises and questions the category of "woman", anyone (including men) who rejects gender caetgorization should be able to consider themselves feminist, no?
I have a constant problem in Portiguese whn I speak about feminism: why can I not refer to feminists as "os feministas", given that in the language, the masculine "os" is unmarked for gender (ex. "os progressistas", "os socialistas", "os professores da USP" etc etc.
indeed. i'm inclined to think of feminism as a position and not a person. It is a space of critique about gender and therefore shouldn't be assigned one!
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