They argued that women s social position has nothing to do with their biologies in refuting popular traditional arguments made in the social sciences and sociobiology. Culture has constructed the women s place in the home, subservient to men. Another tier in the debate interestingly positions women s essence as something yet untouched or discovered from the social narratives that condemn it. Although these theorists don t engage heavily in social construction per say, they deny patriarchy s myths as dangerously less then real and urge women to form communities that explore their womanly natures of nurturing and creativity. These radical feminists claim that there is a radical difference between women and men such that they have different cultures.
Women have an entirely different way of interacting with the world.
For feminists to be essentialist means that they exclude women of difference. This categorization excludes numerous women who, because of economic, racial, or sexual social positions, have different needs, behaviors, and identities. Social construction argues that essences are culturally created and their meanings vary in different contexts. There is no easy methodology to determine the meaning or social status of a being outside of cultural discourse. Social construction is more geared towards exposing differences and focusing on the particularities of women s lives in different contexts.