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Femininity versus Feminism: The Female Thing

By CAKE, Section Seal of Approval
Posted on Fri Oct 20, 2006 at 04:11:47 PM EST

The Female Thing: Dirt, Sex, Envy, Vulnerability explores the tensions between feminism and feminity.

Femininity -- which Kipnis defines as "tactical: a way of securing resources and positioning women as advantageously as possible on an uneven playing field, given the historical inequalities and anatomical disparities that make up the wonderful female condition" -- seeks to ameliorate all these disadvantages by "doing what it took to form strategic alliances with men." But that means that femininity "hinges on sustaining an underlying sense of female inadequacy," which puts it in opposition to the goals of feminism.

Doesn't that strike you as a shame? The goal of feminism has always been to gain equality. The fact that women embrace their femininity, i.e., what makes us uniquely women, while we achieve equality is not in oppostion to feminism - it is the result of feminism.

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