Firestone, a radical feminist, attacked the idea of the “biological family” with a close eye on the idea that biological division of labor created through reproduction is the primary cause for male domination. Firestone’s arguments through her own book continued to be developed in the book Further Adventures of Dialect of Sex. This book is composed by multiple feminists who use theory to address several issues that pertain to women’s rights. The key debate that occurs in this book address, once again, the role of the biological family. In the section “Sexing the State of Nature: Firestone’s Materialist Manifesto” by Gillian Howie, discusses the debate of reproductive labor appears. “Exchanges of power (Hobbes) or labor (Locke) have contractual
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There exists a “mutual recognition of inequality” due to the knowledge of male homogeny that exists. The “exchanges of power or labor” relates to the power men receive once their wife becomes pregnant. Contraceptives and reproductive rights were the head of debates for women ad society during the 1970’s. Pregnancy and reproductive control over the female’s body had not been a decision for the female but a decision for males and the state government. Mandy Merck opens the book by addressing the “harsh self-questioning about motherhood in demands that “women go beyond justifying themselves in term of their wombs and breasts and housekeeping” (12 Merck). Woman should not be forced to structure their lives on the basis of their ability to produce children. Women deserve the opportunity to achieve more than just a mother but the opportunity to make the decision for themselves. On the contrary to Firestone’s radical approach, the liberal feminist approach sees the relationship between marriage and child bearing as a decision that only a female herself has the right to …show more content…
Barbra Tomlinson creates a trope that would change the derogatory remarks made to feminists who struggle daily with inequality. The trope she creates changes the story and redirects the conversation and conceptual speech that is active. The sensory devices and discourse that revolves around the reaction to feminist ideas allows men to inhibit the women’s movement, the trop changes all that. The Trope fights against “delegitimize feminist argument even before the argument begins, to undetermined feminist politics by making its costs personal, and to foreclose feminists futures by making feminism seem repulsive to young women. The trope is a convention, a plot trick, a setup, a narrative structure, a character type. Its incessant repetition constitutes part of a cultural training program that makes antifeminism and misogyny a routine element in everyday speech and written argument” (Tomlinson 1). The rhetoric used when describing women causes a written foundation that allows the oppression of women to continue. Tomlinson uses the trope address the issues that surround, “power [that] dropped out of the picture: civility is used not to have equal dialogue but to justify inequality and manage subordinate groups. The boundaries of who is to be treated with dignity turn out to be more deceptive than one might think” (Tomlinson 58).
There exists a “mutual recognition of inequality” due to the knowledge of male homogeny that exists. The “exchanges of power or labor” relates to the power men receive once their wife becomes pregnant. Contraceptives and reproductive rights were the head of debates for women ad society during the 1970’s. Pregnancy and reproductive control over the female’s body had not been a decision for the female but a decision for males and the state government. Mandy Merck opens the book by addressing the “harsh self-questioning about motherhood in demands that “women go beyond justifying themselves in term of their wombs and breasts and housekeeping” (12 Merck). Woman should not be forced to structure their lives on the basis of their ability to produce children. Women deserve the opportunity to achieve more than just a mother but the opportunity to make the decision for themselves. On the contrary to Firestone’s radical approach, the liberal feminist approach sees the relationship between marriage and child bearing as a decision that only a female herself has the right to …show more content…
Barbra Tomlinson creates a trope that would change the derogatory remarks made to feminists who struggle daily with inequality. The trope she creates changes the story and redirects the conversation and conceptual speech that is active. The sensory devices and discourse that revolves around the reaction to feminist ideas allows men to inhibit the women’s movement, the trop changes all that. The Trope fights against “delegitimize feminist argument even before the argument begins, to undetermined feminist politics by making its costs personal, and to foreclose feminists futures by making feminism seem repulsive to young women. The trope is a convention, a plot trick, a setup, a narrative structure, a character type. Its incessant repetition constitutes part of a cultural training program that makes antifeminism and misogyny a routine element in everyday speech and written argument” (Tomlinson 1). The rhetoric used when describing women causes a written foundation that allows the oppression of women to continue. Tomlinson uses the trope address the issues that surround, “power [that] dropped out of the picture: civility is used not to have equal dialogue but to justify inequality and manage subordinate groups. The boundaries of who is to be treated with dignity turn out to be more deceptive than one might think” (Tomlinson 58).