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A 5 page paper discussing the origin and nature of male dominance as promoted by Nancy Chodorow, Catherine MacKinnon, and Gayle Rubin, and answering the question, “Would ending heterosexuality end gender?” Ending heterosexuality could have the effect of ending gender in the sense that one would not be dominant over another. However, it is likely that, were gender not an issue making distinction between classes, individuals would find another quality on which to base and justify the same type of oppression. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Plato (387 - 347 BC) accepts heterosexuality as a nearly-necessary evil. In Platos view, matter was the arch enemy of the human race, and "mating" with women introduced more
of it into the world. Intellectually inferior in Platos view, women were poor substitutes for men, and only men of lower intellectual capacity would be attracted to them.
"Those whose procreancy is of the body turn to woman ... But those whose procreancy is of the spirit rather than of the flesh ... bear the things of the
spirit" (Plato 209a). For those men who limited their physical involvement to other men, "their communion [is] even more complete, than that which comes of bringing children up, because
they have created something lovelier and less mortal than human seed" (Plato 209cd). Thus the gender struggle has been recognized at least to
350 BC. It still rests on heterosexuality, though only to a degree. Nancy Chodorow, Catherine MacKinnon, and Gayle Rubin have been able to elaborate. Nancy Chodorow
Chodorow (1974) looks to the family structure as the source of unconscious development that produces dominant men and women who either are submissive or the
men seek to make that way. Chodorow (1974) notes that children typically are with their mother for most of their waking hours, which more often was the case in
1974. Today, children are not with mothers with as much exclusivity in that more women are in the workforce, but even those children are then with caregivers or teachers
who most often are women. The point is that girls have greater continuity than boys. Girls have sex-role models in their mothers,
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