THE ANTIFEMINIST THOUGHT

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  • Maria Bernardete Ramos Flores Professora do Departamento de História da Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina.

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https://doi.org/10.5216/hr.v9i2.10446

Abstract

Parallel to the history of the women's emancipation, the antifeminism actuated in the camp of the knowledge, to affirm that the society is sexed and nothing to happen outsider of sexual dimorphism. Physicians, anatomists, anthropologists, somatologists, physiologists, and sexologists showed the nature of the feminine physiology specific is perturbed by the genital humors or faded to the maternity. Philosophers, such Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Weininger, attributed to woman an ontological essence that put the brain under to the command of the sex. The Adler or Freud’ psychology defended the virile affirmation to resolve the crisis of masculine identity. The Comte and Durkheim’ sociology defined the public to men and the privated to women. To finish, Simmel determined the masculine is the propre universal human.

Key words: Antifeminism, feminism, science.

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2010-07-19

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RAMOS FLORES, M. B. THE ANTIFEMINIST THOUGHT. História Revista, Goiânia, v. 9, n. 2, 2010. DOI: 10.5216/hr.v9i2.10446. Disponível em: https://revistas.ufg.br/historia/article/view/10446. Acesso em: 16 aug. 2024.

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