MORE ON MASCULINE AND FEMININE THINKING<\/p>\n
I am doing research on an Margaret Fuller, an early american Femininst. She is supposed to have knocked the socks of Emerson and Thoreau for being smart. Here’s how they describe her:<\/p>\n
It was what in woman is generally called a masculine mind; that is, its action was determined by ideas rather than by sentiments. And yet, with this masculine trait, she combined a woman’s appreciation of the beautiful in sentiment and the beautiful in action.<\/p>\n
That’s pretty clear description of the dichotomy. Granted, it’s from the 1880’s. But the idea didn’t go away, it was just rephrased.<\/p>\n
MEN think with ideas and reason.<\/p>\n
WOMEN think with feelings or sentiment.<\/p>\n
There are underlying assumptions here that bear re-examination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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