David Halperin: An Analysis

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When googling the word “feminism” the two best definitions are these ones, to advocacy of women's rights on the basis of the equality of the sexes, right from Google’s on definition and surprisingly, from urbandictionary.com, The belief that women are and should be treated as potential intellectual equals and social equals to men. These people can be either male or female human beings, although the ideology is commonly (and perhaps falsely) associated mainly with women. I preferred the one from Feminist.com, Feminism really means different things to different people. In general, feminism is a lens and a way to identify injustices that are happening as well as work on potential solutions. It's mostly about gender imbalances. I believe it is imbalance and non-equal treated towards women, from either both or one sex.

David Halperin does not really define sexuality, because just like “feminism”, sexuality has tons of different definitions. If one would have picked sexuality as person's sexual orientation or preference, then Halperin’s book, How …show more content…
Judith Butler brings up Simone de Beauvoir quote “One is not born, but rather becomes a woman” can also be said we are products of our environment. One is not born anything, because everything happens based on our choices, based on our own resources and those which society gives us or can give to us. Speaking out this area, one is no born into great basketball player, you still have to train and be in areas that supplies these resources. The same can be said about gender, you may be born a male, but dress and act like a female, but still prefer females, because society allows
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