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is a movement aiming to liberate both sexes from the patriarchy-created 'strait-jacket of gender'.

She believes that gender is a social and historical construct (i.e., man-created) that is neither natural nor essential, and that one of the chief goals of feminism is to liberate both sexes from the patriarchy-created 'strait-jacket of gender' (net)

is the empirically oppressive way that the sexual world is organized.

Rubin defines gender as 'the empirically oppressive way' that the sexual world is organized (1975: 169).

is the gradation of sexual practices from morally 'good sex' to 'bad sex' in heteronormative societies.

According to cultural anthropologist Gayle Rubin, heteronormativity in mainstream society creates a 'sex hierarchy' that gradates sexual practices from morally 'good sex' to 'bad sex.' The hierarchy places reproductive, monogamous sex between committed heterosexuals as 'good' and places any sexual acts and individuals who fall short of this standard lower until they fall into 'bad sex.' Specifically, this places long-term committed gay couples and promiscuous gays in between the two poles' (wikipedia)

is the set of arrangements by which a society transforms biological sexuality into products of human activity, and in which these transformed sexual needs are satisfied.

the set of arrangements by which a society transforms biological sexuality into products of human activity, and in which these transformed sexual needs are satisfied.' (Rubin . . .) . . . 'Gayle Rubin (for instance) uses the phrase 'sex/gender system' in order to describe 'a set of arrangements by which the biological raw material of human sex and procreation is shaped by human, social intervention' (1975, 165). Rubin employed this system to articulate that 'part of social life which is the locus of the oppression of women' (1975, 159) describing gender as the 'socially imposed division of the sexes' (1975, 179). Rubin's thought was that although biological differences are fixed, gender differences are the oppressive results of social interventions that dictate how women and men should behave. Women are oppressed as women and 'by having to be women' (Rubin 1975, 204). However, since gender is social, it is thought to be mutable and alterable by political and social reform that would ultimately bring an end to women's subordination. Feminism should aim to create a 'genderless (though not sexless) society, in which one's sexual anatomy is irrelevant to who one is, what one does, and with whom one makes love' (Rubin 1975, 204). . . .In some earlier interpretations, like Rubin's, sex and gender were thought to complement one another. The slogan 'Gender is the social interpretation of sex' captures this view.' (standford encyclopedia of philsophy : feminism / gender)

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