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A sharper perspective on this matter is particularly important to feminist

thought today, because a major tendency in feminism has constructed the

problem of domination as a drama of female vulnerability victimized by male

aggression.  Even the more sophisticated feminist thinkers frequently shy

away from the analysis of submission, for fear that in admitting woman's

participation in the relationship of domination, the onus of responsibility

will appear to shift from men to women, and the moral victory from women to

men.  More generally, this has been a weakness of radical politics: to

idealize the oppressed, as if their politics and culture were untouched by

the system of domination, as if people did not participate in their own

submission.  To reduce domination to a simple relation of doer and done-to

is to substitute moral outrage for analysis.

        -- Jessica Benjamin, "The Bonds of Love"

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