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Ideas of Iris Marion Young, by Text

[American, 1949 - 2006, Professor of Politics at the University of Chicago.]

2005 On Female Body Experience
p.43 p.45 As a young girl assumes her status as feminine, she acts in a more fragile immobile way
     Full Idea: The young girl acquires many subject habits of feminine body comportment - walking, tilting her head, standing and sitting like a girl, and so on ….The more a girl assumes her status as feminine, the more she takes herself to be fragile and immobile.
     From: Iris Marion Young (On Female Body Experience [2005], p.43), quoted by Kevin Aho - Existentialism: an introduction 3 'Aspects'
     A reaction: This strikes me as true of young women, but it largely wears off as they get older, at least among modern women. A whole book could be written about women and smiling.