MODR 1710 Study Guide - Hongyipao, Narration, The Groke

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Rooney separates the metaphorical construction of feminine unreason from women irrationality. She means that reason is understood in a way that excludes the female"s characteristics. Reason usually is understood to exclude body, nature, passion, emotion and instinct which are usually seen as feminine. In contrast, men"s reasoning is seen as universal and neutral, and better. Rooney argues that certain types of metaphorical exclusions are not less worthy to get serious attention. Different views that exist with respect to sex and gender reasoning. Traditional view: positioning maleness and reason close together since it is a tradition. Males seen as rational and females seen as irrational. We tend to exclude terms like emotion, imagine, private (vs public) and particular (vs universal) which tend to be female characteristics. Sexist metaphors were fairly persistent in philosophical conceptions of reason and knowledge in the western tradition. Reasoning: universal, detached from people"s emotion and objective (not influenced by emotions, biased).

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