Gender equality with difference : a yijing yin-yang approach
In this dissertation, I argue that gender equality should be premised on gender difference in the Yijing yin-yang thinking paradigm. To support the thesis, I begin with a brief review of three representative sexist theories in mainstream feminism: (1) women are conceptual others, inferior to men; (...
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| description | In this dissertation, I argue that gender equality should be premised on gender difference in the Yijing yin-yang thinking paradigm. To support the thesis, I begin with a brief review of three representative sexist theories in mainstream feminism: (1) women are conceptual others, inferior to men; (2) women are “mutilated males,” possessing a degraded position; and (3) women’s experience is replaced by men’s. I argue that these sexist norms are part of “the one-sex model,” which is largely dominated by the exclusive dualistic thinking paradigm and its hierarchical evaluating system. Worse, this paradigm causes a dilemma of gender equality. This dilemma is the incompatibility between equality in sameness and equality in difference. |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/898462021-11-26T00:20:26Z Gender equality with difference : a yijing yin-yang approach Zhang, Lili Li Chenyang School of Humanities CYLI@ntu.edu.sg DRNTU::Social sciences::Sociology::Family, marriage and women In this dissertation, I argue that gender equality should be premised on gender difference in the Yijing yin-yang thinking paradigm. To support the thesis, I begin with a brief review of three representative sexist theories in mainstream feminism: (1) women are conceptual others, inferior to men; (2) women are “mutilated males,” possessing a degraded position; and (3) women’s experience is replaced by men’s. I argue that these sexist norms are part of “the one-sex model,” which is largely dominated by the exclusive dualistic thinking paradigm and its hierarchical evaluating system. Worse, this paradigm causes a dilemma of gender equality. This dilemma is the incompatibility between equality in sameness and equality in difference. Doctor of Philosophy 2019-02-26T02:21:13Z 2019-12-06T17:34:54Z 2019-02-26T02:21:13Z 2019-12-06T17:34:54Z 2019 Thesis-Doctor of Philosophy Zhang, L. (2019). Gender equality with difference : yijing yin-yang approach. Doctoral thesis, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. https://hdl.handle.net/10356/89846 http://hdl.handle.net/10220/47723 10.32657/10220/47723 en This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0). 175 p. application/pdf Nanyang Technological University |
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