Teaching Women with a Y-Chromosome: Do Men Make Better Feminists?

WOMEN'S education; MEN'S studies; Y chromosome; FEMINIST theory; DIGBY, Tom; FEMINISM; STEREOTYPES; FEMINISTS; WOMEN'S studies; CURRICULUM

The article discusses the pedagogy of teaching women with a Y-chromosome and explains if men make better feminists. It stated that a feminist is someone who believes and argues for the political, economic, and social equality of the sexes. According to Tom Digby, if feminism is seen primarily as a source of empowerment for individual women, then men that claims to be feminists are incomprehensible at best and interlopers at worst. It is revealed that one of the biggest obstacles faced by pro-feminists male in the women's studies, is the negative cultural stereotype of the feminist.