Reactionary feminism
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Reactionary feminism is a form of feminism that rejects the progressivist belief that human history is an ongoing arc of moral advancement and seeks to ground a defence of women's interests in a contingent, materialist, and sex-realist position.[1] The term originates in an article by the author Mary Harrington [2] and popularized in her book Feminism Against Progress.[3]
Reactionary feminism views men and women as equal in dignity and capacity for excellence but physiologically different in ways that, at scale, are materially and politically significant. Reactionary feminism argues from a materialist analysis of feminist history that the claim that males and females are interchangeabile is itself false, serves as a means of consolidating power by the managerial class, and is actively inimical to the interests of poorer women whose lives of necessity cannot be abstracted from the material.
Reactionary feminist arguments include
See also
- Trans-exclusionary radical feminism
References
- ^ Lewis, Helen (2023-06-18). "The Feminists Insisting That Women Are Built Differently". The Atlantic. Retrieved 2023-06-19.
- ^ Harrington, Mary (2021-06-01). "Reactionary Feminism". First Things. Retrieved 2023-06-19.
- ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 2023-06-19.