Throughout the beginning of Hilde Lindeman’s chapter, she begins with defining feminism, considering two kinds of definitions commonly used for this subject. However, initially rejects both in favor of a third. The first is her observation that shows that people often view feminism as a movement that motivates woman to have the social equality that men have “Men remain the point of reference, theirs are the lives that woman would naturally want.” (137) The confliction that comes from this is that women and men are treated as abstractions, constructing a standard woman find they need to measure up to. Her solution to this problem is attending a woman directly. It is difficult to define what makes one a woman. Gender is not defined as a biological
