当代美国女权主义在70年代末发生了重要的转折。起初女权主义者们所关注的是对女性的法律的,经济的和社会的歧视,现在他们转而开始研究人类生活的两性组织对西方文化——即对我们称之为“西方知识传统”的文学、科学和哲学的原则的深刻影响。早期女权主义著作批评这一传统,因为它明显地具有性别偏见——它的观念是排斥女人的,它的理论是厌恶女人的,它远不能体现女性的利益和意见,如此等等。然而,到了70年代末,在女权主义者中出现了一种“怀疑论的解释”。人们开始认识到,性别差异 Contemporary American feminism took an important turning point in the late 1970s. Initially feminists were concerned with the legal, economic and social discrimination against women and now they are turning their attention to Western culture - that is, what we call the “Western intellectual tradition” The profound influence of the principles of literature, science and philosophy. Early feminist criticism of this tradition because it clearly has a gender bias - its concept is exclusive of women, its theory is disgusted with women, it can far from the women’s interests and opinions, and so on. However, by the late 1970s, a “skeptical explanation” had emerged among feminists. People began to realize that gender differences