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Որոշ գիտնականներ, օրինակ Քեյթրին ՄաքԿինոնը, վիճարկում էին, որ կինը նա է, ով տղամարդկանց հասանելի է որպես սեքսուալ օբյեկտ և կին է դառնում առարկայացման այս գործընթացի միջոցով: Ուստի, շատ ակտիվիստների և գիտնականների նպատակն էր ազատել «կնոջը» և այդ կատեգորիայից ընդհանրապես հրաժարվել:
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By the 1980s, feminists developed different theories of how “woman” was created and began to use “gender,” rather than sex, as the main way of discussing the relationship between women and men. Some scholars, like Catherine MacKinnon, argued that woman is that who is available as a sexual object for men and becomes woman by this process of objectification. Therefore, the goal for many activists and scholars was to free “woman” and get rid of the category altogether. Some philosophers, like Monique Wittig, said that lesbians have already been freed from being sexual objects for men and thus are not women. Instead, “lesbian” itself is a gender category of those who are liberated from being women, but are not men. At this point, gender was becoming the norm for those within the humanities and social sciences and was also being used by popular media in Western Europe and the Americas, such as in magazines, television shows, etc.
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