Woman as the Other Flashcards
What is the Subject?
The subject is man.
Men are considered the norm and can transcend biological determination.
What is the Other?
The Other is woman.
The Other is inessential, deviant and immanent - incapable of transcending biology.
How do women experience their otherness?
The Other experience oppression as a communal reality.
they cannot rely on a common history to assert their subjectivity.
Why is the category ‘woman’ still hard to fight for?
Markers of identity, such as class and race, make solidarity difficult - hard to fight united.
Why is it hard for women to fight against men?
They share an ambiguous bond.
A heterosexual bond is based on men’s and women’s dependence on each other for reproductive purposes.
Hard to split such a bond.
Historically this bond has been?
Not reciprocal or egalitarian.
