The Gender Knot Analysis

The article that I chose is an excerpt from Allan G. Johnson’s 1997 book, The Gender Knot: Unraveling our patriarchal legacy. The main argument that’s referred to in this excerpt is the concept of women’s role in society. Women are seen of as inferior to men in our modern patriarchal society and Johnson stresses that the biological difference is not what defines women’s role in society; it’s the cultural perception of a woman’s body that does.

Johnson uses examples like Marilyn Monroe and Western female Samoa to show that in some cultures, women were admired for their natural form. In today’s society, women are expected to be skinny, and not be who they are biologically built as. He also emphasizes that women are vital