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platos de feminization of the republic

en. The subordination takes various forms: discrimination, disregard, insult, control, exploitation, oppression, and violence. De-feminized women will be perpetuating the "polis-centric" perspective of patriarchy; the valued traits will be those historically valued as masculine. The dominant group frames all competing definitions within its own perspective framework; Plato's philosopher-queens will be unable to challenges the hegemony imposed on them.The ideal state is liberation from woman. Woman will have same opportunities and responsibilities as man. They cease being woman and begin doing exactly what men do. In a "Feminized State" women have evident decision making position and an impact on the procedure system within the legislature (Vickers 115). In the de-feminized republic, woman will have decision-making positions but they will be thinking like men, and will have no desire to systematically introduce balancing perspectives from the "other" standpoint. The number of women will not play a role in raising the importance of women's problems because Distinction between men and women become meaningless, woman will adapt to the male norm. The men in the ideal society will be freed from woman's issues because there will not be any woman's issues. Plato denies the difference between men and women; he fails to consider women's experience on its own terms, making female experience a norm, too. According to Plato, Woman differs from men in sexual function (Book V, 454d); she is in all other functions of life a weaker man, possessed of the same capacities but not the same strength Book V, 454e). The ideal society will train its members to eliminate all sex difference - Women will have to adapt the ideal of manhood. Plato does woman a disservice by turning them into men, there will be no distinctions between the personality traits values in men and those valued in women because the only traits valued will be masculine.Plato's ideal humanity...

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