justifying womens subordinate position in society
Women’s bodies have been used against them to justify their subordinate position in society in many ways and for various reasons. Women live in a patriarchal society. ... At the same time we are at the point where women are able to challenge the position and achievements of men. ... How do women succeed in a patriarchal society? ... Young explains this point best by stating, “The female person who enacts the existence of women in a patriarchal society must therefore live a contradiction: as a human she is a free subject who participates in transcendence, but her situation as a woman denies her that subjectivity and transcendence. ... “Women in a sexist society are physically handicapped.