PHIL 336 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Charlotte Bunch, Androgyny
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Firestone rcf: found millet inadequate, end biological families, locating the situation of women at the biological level. French rcf: traditional female traits are better than traditional masculine traits. Daly rcf: envoys religion, transcendent god rejected women, androgyny still means there is female and male. Only mixes them: should reject all femininity. Rlf and sexuality: women should experiment with di erent kinds of sex, not con ne sexuality, all sex is good. Rcf and sexuality: the only kind of good sex is monogamous lesbianism. Should be decriminalized: can then be regulated. Lesbian controversy: the myth of the vaginal orgasm. Might men become sexually expendable: rlf. Women are with men because they want to: rcf. There is no physiological reason to be with a man. Political lesbian: not erotically attracted to women but tries to be woman-oriented. Charlotte bunch: lesbianism is the key to liberation. Women"s power is rooted in her reproduction.
