Kvinden, kvinder, kvindelighed

- overvejelser over kvindeforskningens grundbegreber

Abstract

On the background of the considerable development in women's studies during the last 15 years, this paper discuss the concepts of women and femininity in this discipline. The paper outlines some principal ideas in philosophy and science concerning sexual difference from 19. century until today. It showshow women wrighters have presented their ideas of freedom within this traditional framework. The essential assumption is, that women's studies must replace the romantic idea of 'the Woman' with the conception of both 'women', that is concrete, real biological women at all times, and 'femininity', that is the ideological imagination of 'the Woman', which has had a normative influence.