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More Thinking About Gender: A Response to Julie A. Nelson

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2020

Patricia Elliot
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Abstract

Nelson argues the best we can hope for in a nonsexist society is to revalue those feminine qualities that have previously been devalued. I argue that those qualities are the result of a sexist construction of gender categories, and that a nonsexist society would have no reason to preserve them.

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COMMENT/REPLY
Information
Hypatia , Volume 9 , Issue 1 , Winter 1994 , pp. 195 - 198
Copyright
Copyright © 1994 by Hypatia, Inc.

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