About feminism?

Question

Why is theorizing the "body" necessary for feminist theory and why is it a contentious area?

Answer 1

Consider writing Warren Farrell at the web site below. He was on the original board of directors for N.O.W. He should be able to explain it the best.

Answer 2

Because philosophy, rational discourse, etc has set itself against the emotional, animal, desire-laden aspect of human cognition. No one wants to admit carnality into the ivory towers of Eidos and Pure, detached Mind. It's a Cartesian revulsion, but also a Socratic one... a criticism launched at the corporeal as deficient, disgusting, transitory, lacking in degree and kind the perfection of immateriality. That priestly trend continues. No one wants to admit their language and daily life are immediately involved in the animal-instinctual-biological apparatus, that values hinge on desire, and that Body as such isn't even really distinct from Mind...

Feminists need to address it because the female gender has been put in the box with the wild tiger, lacking Reason, and effectively ostracized to aggrandize the domination of the male. Not only this of course, objectification is a notorious result of chauvanism, one which fetishizes the female body to such an extent that the gender identity is often constituted by male preference throughout history. And to even ask the question "what is the female?" we have to have some ordinary understanding of it, and more likely than not-- it is the body that is the diving board into all the quandaries that follow. An elucidation of the body as relates to gender, which easily prizes apart, is therefore a requirement to the study.

Answer 3

It's simple phylosophy, I don't understand it at all.