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“Female values” have not been shaped for public purposes nor under conditions of freedom but rather have been developed under conditions of oppression and bent to the service of power in the private sphere. Moreover they do not, any more than their masculine counterpart, bear our full humanity. Although we may find some of women’s historically developed qualities more appealing than those of men, women cannot be called the more “fully human” gender in a history that dichotomizes women and men along almost every dimension of human being and activity. Within the partiality of the construction of both women and men, there has been no ungendered human experience, only the experience of women and men

That from Wendy Brown’s Politics of Manhood.