![]() ![]() “So straight away I want to be absolutely clear about what I’m not saying, before I go on to explain and justify these points in more detail in the next chapter. ![]() ![]() Material Girls: Why Reality Matters for Feminism Hence, Jed concludes, there’s no such thing as cancer.” If there were no such thing as cancer, it would be false that he’s got it. Hence there are no natural differences between males and females.’ Compare: Jed really wants it to be false that he’s got cancer. We all want biological determinism to be false. Meanwhile, an alternative feminist response from some seemed to go roughly: ‘If there were no natural differences at all between males and females, biological determinism would obviously be false. Working backwards, they therefore concluded that, since biological determinism isn’t true, binary sex must be a myth. On the one hand, some assumed all binary theories of sex must imply determinism: that is, that these theories must be saying something about the fundamental individual ‘natures’ of males and females in terms of dominance for males, and passivity and submission for females. “some 70s feminists then seemed to reason in a couple of defective ways about biological determinism and sex. ![]()
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