post modern feminists , difference between gender and sex

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post modern feminists go further than earlier strands of feminism in arguing that

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gender is socially rather than biologically determined

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they promote a more fluid and less fixed understanding of gender and what it means to be a woman

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empathising the diversity and multiplicity of identities that exist within womanhood

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they reject the idea that there is a single universal experience of being a woman and argue that

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gender is not a rigid binary category but rather a spectrum of identities that intersect with other aspects of a person’s social and personal life such as race class sexuality and culture

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this perspective challenged earlier feminist waves that they argue

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generalised white middle class women experiences under a broad notion of sisterhood which tended to marginalise those whose lives did not ft this narrative

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bell hooks agreed that women’s experiences shouldn’t be universalised but that

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instead there should be a focus on soliditary between women and other groups facing oppression in different ways

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bell hooks argued that alliances must be built between groups who have differences in order to work together and

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build a more inclusive movement,ent so that systems of oppression can be effectively challenged and dismantled