ABSTRACT
The ideology of sex and gender has to do with a number of topics, the most important being the value or otherwise of the traditional differences in the social and political status of men and women. Sexual matters have been discussed by professional philosophers. The ideology of sex and gender is mixed up with ideas about nature and the natural, the normal and the abnormal and ‘nature versus nurture’ – and these notions are essentially philosophical in character. The philosophy and science of sex and gender tended to support traditional assumptions about what is natural and unnatural in the behaviour of women. The idea that humanity is really a one-sex species, that women are simply defective men, can also be seen in the writings of some of the more extreme propagandists of the feminist movement. Extreme feminists wish to work for an ideal androgynous future.
