{"id":927,"date":"2013-07-29T20:16:19","date_gmt":"2013-07-29T20:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/monochromist.com\/2013\/07\/29\/womens-bodies-are-presumed-to-be-incapable-of\/"},"modified":"2013-07-29T20:16:19","modified_gmt":"2013-07-29T20:16:19","slug":"womens-bodies-are-presumed-to-be-incapable-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/2013\/07\/29\/womens-bodies-are-presumed-to-be-incapable-of\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>[W]omen\u2019s bodies are presumed to be incapable of men\u2019s achievements, being weaker, more prone to (hormonal) irregularities, intrusions and unpredictabilities&hellip; Relying on essentialism, naturalism and biologism, misogynist thought confines women to the biological requirements of reproduction on the assumption that because of particular biological, physiological and endocrinological transformations, women are somehow more biological, more corporeal, and more natural than men. The coding of femininity with corporeality in effect leaves men free to inhabit what they (falsely) believe in a purely conceptual order while at the same time enabling them to satisfy their (sometimes disavowed) need for corporeal contact through their access to women\u2019s bodies and services.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>Elizabeth Grosz, Volatile Bodies.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[W]omen\u2019s bodies are presumed to be incapable of men\u2019s achievements, being weaker, more prone to (hormonal) irregularities, intrusions and unpredictabilities&hellip; Relying on essentialism, naturalism and biologism, misogynist thought confines women to the biological requirements of reproduction on the assumption that because of particular biological, physiological and endocrinological transformations, women are somehow more biological, more corporeal, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-video_graphics","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5sGHy-eX","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":928,"url":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/2013\/07\/29\/the-malefemale-opposition-has-been-closely-allied\/","url_meta":{"origin":927,"position":0},"title":"The male\/female opposition has been\u2026","author":"monochromist","date":"July 29, 2013","format":"quote","excerpt":"The male\/female opposition has been closely allied with the mind\/body opposition. 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