Battle Between Sexes Critical

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Jordan O'Neill agrees to become the first woman to train with the elite fighting force. If Jordan succeeds, then she will strike a blow for the idea of women in combat, but no one expects or even really wants her to succeed. Jordan, appearing as masculine as possible, bravely endures humiliation, ridicule, sabotage, and physical torture to prove she can do it. O’Neil suffers each of these indignities, and even shaves her hair to escape its encumbrance.
O'Neil finds herself fighting for respect and survival among the officers, the fellow trainees, and the world it seems. To make matters worse, she ticks off C.O. Salem by insisting on one standard of training. If it is to be done, O'Neil will do it as all the men have to do it or not at all. The toughest battle for her lies in the person of Master Chief John Urgayle whose job it is to destroy and if they stay, then to build them back up. Urgayle doesn't believe women should be in combat, not because they are not capable but ...

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key concept about this time was to open up the job market for women so they too could become doctors and lawyers and whatever else they chose to do.
Classical feminism says that men and women should first be looked at as people. Culture is what has shaped us.
Simone de Beauvoir a feminist icon of the 1920’s accuses the philosophical tradition as women being viewed as atypical human beings and men as typical. She says it is a cultural fact that women do what they do because they’re normal. “Until women begin to think of themselves as a group, they will believe they are abnormal human beings,” she says. Men and women both need to receive the same treatment ...

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