Instead of Transcendence: Thinking Outside the Gender Dichotomy in the Work of Straus and Young

Abstract

Women's liberation has led to differences in how women are allowed to move, yet many values around femininity and feminine movement remain the same. This article takes up the question of value, especially what I perceive as a problematic valuing of masculine movement over feminine movement in Iris Young's (1980/2005) “Throwing Like a Girl.” This leads into a discussion of Simone de Beauvoir's transcendence-immanence dichotomy that Young drew heavily on and which I will use to emphasize the idea that modern men are as limited by the current social norms and power structures as women.

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Ariel Larson

Ariel Larson, M.A., is a doctoral student in clinical psychology at Duquesne University. She has an M.A. from Seattle University, and has long standing interests in feminist theory, multicultural psychology, and medical anthropology.