Although these theories are primarily male oriented, they provide a basis for corporeal feminism. Both critiquing and appropriating this philosophical tradition, corporeal feminism inserts the female body into the masculinized sphere in order to refigure all bodies with fluid boundaries, connection and interdependence rather than rigidity, discontinuity and autonomy. I want to unearth the theoretical beginnings of unthinking the body, discuss the meaning of body in Feminisms, and wonder about whether there is a way out of dualistic thinking. These assumptions seep into thinking of strategies of liberation from violent systems of oppression, which result from dichotomous structures. The most dangerous assumption is that man, as the rational animal, is capable of creating culture, while women are reduced and condemned to the body.
Feminists have different strategies for discussing the body.
Greer starts the Female Eunuch with body because she wants to explore the normative conditioning of women's bodies. Women are subordinate by their position as bodily. In cultural conditioning, women's bodies, the vagina, vulva and clitoris are treated as if absent whereas the eyelashes, breasts and hair are among the privileged sites of femininity. She argues that all the ways the body is, could be other ways. Women as bodily represent all that is chaotic and material.