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Do Muscles Matter?—Women and Physical Strength: A Reply to Xinyan Jiang

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2020

Jay Gallagher
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Abstract

In Hypatia's (1.5) 3, issue, Xinyan Jiang describes a failed experiment in sexual equality conducted during the Chinese Cultural Revolution. She believes the lesson to be drawn from it is that males will continue to have an advantage in societies requiring much physical strength. In contrast, I argue here that this failed experiment shows that the Maoist attempt to force women into men's roles was not feminist. American pioneers are cited as a counterexample.

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Hypatia , Volume 17 , Issue 1 , Winter 2002 , pp. 53 - 70
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Copyright © 2002 by Hypatia, Inc.

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