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    Boys develop a psychological motive to deprecate and dominate women.

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    • 1.Women predominate in infant care and early child-rearing.
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    • 2.Boys must construct masculine identity by separating from their mother and from the feminine.
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    • 3.The process of separation required for masculine identity formation generates deprecation of what is separated from.
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    • 1.Cross-cultural evidence shows significant variation in masculine identity formation, with many societies producing men who lack systematic deprecation of women.
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    • 2.If the deprecation motive were a necessary psychological outcome of separation from female caregivers, its incidence would be culturally invariant, which anthropological data contradicts.
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    • 1.Chodorow's account conflates the structural conditions that may produce certain tendencies with a universal psychological necessity, committing the genetic fallacy.
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    • 2.Even granting that separation anxiety generates some hostility, hostility toward a source of anxiety does not logically entail a stable motive to dominate that source, as Freud's own ambivalence literature demonstrates.
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    The socialist-feminist idea that there are two interlocking systems that structure gender and the economy, and thus are jointly responsible for male domination, has been developed in a psychological direction by the psychoanalytic school of feminist theorists. Particularly relevant to the question of women and work are the theories of Mitchell (1972, 1974), Kuhn and Wolpe (1978), Chodorow (1978, 1979, 1982) and Ruddick (1989). Mothering, or, taking care of babies and small children, as a type of
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