... also seems to be part of this strategy. Evolutionary psychologists also have an answer for why humans commit to one another , this they believe stems from the development of the human infants brain which was constrained during the time spent in the mother's womb due to shape of the pelvic girdle of the now upright ... human, this meant that the brain carried on developing long after its birth and so depended on the parents longer, because of this a greater commitment was needed from the father and ... by social constructivists , who look for answers about male and female identities as...

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... can only refer to the psychological sense of being male or female. Gender is now understood as a social category (Frable, 1997) and so liberal feminism was correct to deny that nature requires rigidly separate and unequal social roles based on gender (Ruehl, 1983). The patriarchal concepts of gender criticised by feminists are used to ascribe the roles that result in gender ... interpersonal flavour was not captured (e.g., Firestone S, 1970; The Dialectic of Sex: the Case for Feminist Revolution). The socialist or Marxist feminist proposition positions class as the most basic form of hu...

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... gender is based on set of culturally determined binary distinctions, such as public versus private, objective versus subjective, self versus other, reason versus emotion, autonomy versus relatedness, and culture versus nature; the first of each pair of characteristics is typically associated with masculinity, the second with femininity. Hence, these two senses become different views which vary across cultures that in most ... emphasizes civil and political right which can be defined to the form of patriarchy, among those who were excluded by the grand narrative of global liberal democra...

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