Theories that commend innate differences between women and men
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Cultural feminism is a term used to describe a variety of feminism that attempts to revalue and redefine attributes culturally ascribed to femaleness.[1] It is also used to describe theories that commend innate differences between women and men.[2]
Cultural feminists diverged from radical feminists when they rejected the previous feminist and patriarchal notion that feminine traits are undesirable and returned to an essentialist view of gender differences in which they regard "female nature" as superior.[1][3][4]
^ abAlcoff, Linda (1988). "Cultural Feminism versus Post-Structuralism: The Identity Crisis in Feminist Theory". Signs. 13 (3): 405–436. ISSN 0097-9740.
^Kramarae, Cheris; Spender, Dale (2000). Routledge International Encyclopedia of Women: Global Women's Issues and Knowledge. New York: Routledge. p. 746. ISBN 978-0415920902.
^Echols, Alice (1983). "Cultural Feminism: Feminist Capitalism and the Anti-Pornography Movement". Social Text (7): 34–53. doi:10.2307/466453. ISSN 0164-2472. JSTOR 466453.
^Evans, Judy (1995). "Cultural Feminism: Feminism's First Difference". Feminist Theory Today : an Introduction to Second-Wave Feminism. SAGE Publications. p. 73. ISBN 9781446264935. OCLC 874319830.
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