[ENGCOMP 3] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes fot the exam (47 pages long!)
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The subject is irritating, especially for women; and it is not new. _(try being black and a woman, you"ll never hear the end of it) Enough ink has flowed over the quarrel about feminism; it is now almost over: let"s not talk about it anymore. Where are the women? asked a short-lived magazine recently. Tota mulier in utero: she is a womb, . Femininity is in jeopardy ; we are urged, be women, stay women, become women. so not every female human being is necessarily a woman; she must take part in this mysterious and endangered reality known as femininity. Its over 2000 years of being sick and tired of mens" bullshit. But conceptualism has lost ground: biological and social sciences no longer believe there are immutably determined entities that define given characteristics like those of the woman. If there is no such thing today as femininity, it is because there never was.
